Left to right : Ex-Coxswain Joseph O. Tomlinson, Coxswain Robert Harland, ex-Coxswain Richard Eglon, Coxswain Thomas William Welham, ex-Coxswain Thomas McGarry Kelly. Their total service is 217 years; their total ages 356 years.. - View image in PDF
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MOELFRE, ANGLESEY On the 29th January, 1940, the Moelfre life-boat rescued the crew of sixty of the S.S. Gleneden, of Glasgow.
COXSWAIN JOHN MATTHEWS was awarded the silver medal.
MOTOR MECHANIC ROBERT...
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Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber station made a wireless appeal for the life-boat service in the "Weeks Good Cause" in the Home Service of the B.B.C.
on 2ist. April. There were over 11,000 replies. The gifts...
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The Robert and Susan Life-boat was launched at noon on the 2nd February, 1887, to the assistance of five fishingboats which had been overtaken by strong gale from the S.E.; with the help of the Life-boatmen, the boats were brought safely to...
Two towed AT ABOUT 1600 on Wednesday December 6, 1978, Robert Gorman, a fisherman and ILB crew member at Aberystwyth, saw a capsized sailing boat and the college rescue boat about 400 yards off shore. Realising that they would need help he...
Seven of the eight crew who were lost. Back row left to right: Daniel Kirkpatrick, Jimmy Johnston, Robert (Sodjer Bob) Johnston, Ray Kirkpatrick and James Swanson. Front row left to right: Robbie Johnston and John (Jack) Kirkpatrick. The... - View image in PDF
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Life-boat Rescue from the Land.
THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Lifeboat Station was situated at the end...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1960, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing vessel James Wickham, which was taking a party to the U.S.S. Rhodes, had broken down and was flying...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At four o'clock on the afternoon of 14th April, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a man in the Tuskar Rock lighthouse had injured his eye and was in need of medical treatment.
Fishing vessel founders THE FRENCH FISHING VESSEL Cite d'Aleth, in distress, was reported to the honorary secretary of Rosslare Harbour lifeboat station by MRCC Shannon at 0634 on Wednesday January 12. At first it was reported that Cite...