LIFE-BOATS have other things to do besides the saving of life from shipwreck.
Among the islands off Scotland and Ireland their help is often asked, when rough weather makes impossible the use of ordinary boats. The most...
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The 37ft Oakley, designed by R. A. Oakley, the Institution's surveyor of lifeboats, was the first modern lifeboat with a self-righting capability, and the first boat of the class to be built, 3. G.
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Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 10.40 on the night of the 21st August, 1961, thehonorary secretary was informed that a small boat with three boys on board had failed to return to the harbour. At 11.15 on the ebbing tide the life-boat George and...
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HOPE that no one who receives this issue of The Life-Boat will fail to read the story of Victor Rojas, well named " The Providence of the Shipwrecked,"...
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Pictured are Eric Winter (kilted) pouring a glass of malt for Ray Taylor.. - View image in PDF
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When Skerries sea swimmer Sean O’Kelly became hypothermic during a swim around Colt Island, he didn’t quite believe it. ‘I could hear a voice saying: “Are you alright?”,’ he recalls, ‘I kept saying: “Yeah,” – but I wasn’t’
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MR. JOHN BOYD-CARPENTER, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, has awarded the shield for the best wreck service of the year to be held jointly by the rocket coast life saving companies of Sea Palling and Winterton. Norfolk.
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The Stromness Lifeboat is lying off the steamer, and the rope by which the crew were rescued can just be seen over the steamer's stern. - View image in PDF
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