IN the last number of the Life-boat Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool type of Life-boat came into use, and the improvements in that type were traced up to the present date.
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Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 6.24 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was on the rocks at Orlock Head. The life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put out at 6.35 in a slight sea. There was a...
Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class lifeboat have been awarded the RNLI's...
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1st July. The oil-tanker Pan Aruba, of Oslo, Norway, had anchored with engine trouble, but she did not need help.—Rewards, £19 6s..
Anstruther, Fifeshire. — 1st March, 1939. A fishing boat had caught fire, but her crew were taken aboard another fishing boat.—Rewards, £11 7s. 6d..
JANUARY 1ST. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. A German aircraft had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £22 18s..
Nine rescued TYNEMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Tynemouth lifeboat station at 1511 on Sunday April 11, 1982. to tell him that the angling boat Blue Fin appeared to be in distress south of Tyne Piers. Eleven minutes...
THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...
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Margate, Kent.—1st July, 1939.
Rockets had been reported between Warden Point and the Reculvers, but nothing could be found. Mr. P. E. W.
Gellatly, the honorary secretary, went out in the boat.—Rewards,...