LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dacca Navigator
Tuesday, 6 September started off as a normal day in the office at Poole, but by mid morning this had all changed after a call from the director of the RNLI.
I was to liaise with the British Red Cross Society (BRCS), he said...
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Irish Eyes Are Smiling
punches, the mill's deputy he* d of punlic Relations. AixompAmeo By nuuReen L . oisphu A?H visits c.o-ORdiiutoR. emi*ARkeo on A whiRlwmO toiiR of the Republic of iReL nd in octoiH-R it. v. s A f rest time, visit to iweUno foe Both of...
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Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Presentation of Vellums Signed by the Prince of Wales.
TEN Centenary Vellums were pre- sented to Stations during the year 1931, and two more presentations were made in 1930 in addition to the ten previously reported in...
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Talking With John Tyrrell FRINA
'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.
It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...
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The Barges Sunrise and Afternoon
On the afternoon of the 16th February, the coxswain and the shore signalman, who were at the pier head, saw two barges in difficulties midway between Sea Reach buoy No. 3 and Jenkin buoy. One barge was driving hard astern. A whole W.S.W....
Margaret and Jane and Presilla
The No. 2 Life-boat, John Fielden, was launched at 8 A.M. on the 22nd January, in an E.S.E. gale and heavy sea, to the as- sistance of the fishing-boats Margaret and Jane and Priscilla, of Filey, and rescued the crews of eight men. The boats...
Awards to Honorary Workers
Mr. Loris N. PARKEK has been elected an Honorary Life Governor of the Institution in recognition of his generous and valuable services to the Life-boat Cause in writing for the Institution the Life-boat play " Their Business in Great...
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The Adventure, the George Evans, the Supply, and B. F. Nash
On the 23rd February the gale which had been the cause of the wrecks previously noted shifted to the N.E., and increased in fury, setting up a terrible sea in Fishguard Bay. At about an hour after midnight of 22-23rd, signals of distress...
Providence
Margate, Kent.—During the evening of the 23rd of July, 1948, the sister of the skipper of the local fishing vessel Providence reported that the Providence had gone out fishing early that morning and was long overdue. The coast- guard was...
San Cirilo
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.5 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the tanker San Cirilo, of London, had asked for a doctor to attend a man suspected of having appendicitis. At 8.45 the life-boat...