By Commander Edward D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chijf Inipsctor of Life-boats.
UNTIL 1921 Motor Life-boats could only | be placed at Stations where it was possible to build a Launching Slipway, or where the boat could...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— During the morning of the llth June, 1938, the three-masted motor schooner Agnes Craig, of Dublin, ran aground on the N.W. side of Blackwater Bank, about fourteen miles from Rosslare Harbour.
AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
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On the 1st Jan- uary, 1867, the brig .Chase, of Shields, was observed near this place with signals of distress flying. The life-boat Parses was conveyed along shore, and launched abreast of the vessel, which had grounded upon Horsey Beach....
THE first of the Life-boat Centenary celebrations in London was a dinner at the Authors' Club on 29th January, at which Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., the Secretary of the Institution, an old mem- ber of the Club, presided, and at which Sir...
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Did you know that there are now just over 20,000 members of Storm Force, the RNLI's membership club for young people? As well as getting a pack full of all sons of goodies and an official membership card, Storm Force members also receive...
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A DRIVE-OFF TROLLEY, SELF-POWERED OR PROPELLED BY SEPARATE TRACTOR, FOR LAUNCHING AND RECOVERY ON EXPOSED BEACHES by Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer, RNLI A DRIVE-OFF TROLLEY, SELF-POWERED OR PROPELLED BY SEPARATE TRACTOR, FOR...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1956, a wire- less distress message was received at the St. Peter Port signal station from the M.V. Conlea, of London, which...
llfracombe celebrated its 150th anniversary with an hour-long ceremony at the lifeboat station on the pier on Saturday September 23, 1978, when (left) a commemorative vellum was presented by Mrs Georgina Keen, a member of the Committee of... - View image in PDF
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Holyhead, Anglesey.—On the night of the 8th October, 1938,the City of Bradford I, doing temporary duty at Holyhead, went out in a gale to the steamer Kyle Prince, of Liverpool, and rescued her crew of nine.—Rewards, The thanks of the...