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JANUARY 1ST. - GALWAY BAY. The priest of the Inisheer Island was at Kilronan on Inishmore, where the Galway Bay life-boat is stationed. It was necessary that he should return to Inisheer on New Year’s Day. A very strong south-easterly wind...
Into the Next Century
The RNLI continues to develop lifesaving equipment of all kinds, to meet new demands as new techniques and materials become available. Tust as with the Severn and Trent class lifeboats often no commercial product suits the exacting needs of...
Category: Articles
Books
BooKs BOOKS From the history of lifeboats and lighthouses to pastimes for Winter evenings, Carol Waterkeyn reviews what’s new on the shelves this season Sea stories – new writing from the National Maritime Museum Various writers This...
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Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Si Abbs' new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat Kathrinc and Dorothy Burr, pictured recently on exercise, will be named Idler this year. She has a/ready attracted considerable public interest as lite principal attraction... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dirk II
Margate, Kent.—At 6.25 in the even- ing of the 1st of June, 1952, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht needed help four miles to the north of the North-East Spit Buoy, about ten miles north of North Foreland, and at 6.35 the life-boat...
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Your Letters
A letter from The Queen Mother Brian Miles. RNLI Director for the past 11 years, retired at the end of 1998.
HM The Queen Mother wrote to Brian in October to offer her best wishes and congratulations on a job well...
Category: Correspondence
Mizpah
Large flares were seen in the direction of the Cross .Sand at 5.30 A.M. during a fresh breeze from the S.W. on the 1st February, and the Cockle Lightship fired guns and rockets. The No. 1 Life-boat was promptly launched, sailed to the sand,...
Centenaries In the North-West
Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.
It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...
Category: Articles
A Hunter Aircraft (1)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...