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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Julia, of Liverpool
On the night of the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind from S. to S.S.E., the barque Julia, of Liverpool, struck on the Brig Hill Bank, in Dundalk Bay. At daylight her signals of distress were seen from the shore, and the Dundalk...
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...
The Portuguese Brigantine Boa Nova and The English Schooner Britannia
On the 13th February the Holyhead life-boat performed a valuable service by proceeding to the Portuguese brigantine Boa Nova, and the English schooner Britannia, during a strong gale from W.N.W., and putting pilots on board them, by which...
The Norwegian Motor Ship Mercur
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 7.36 in the evening of the 31st of December, 1948, the coastguard reported that a vessel, for which the North Goodwin Light- vessel had previously fired warning guns, appeared to be aground on the Goodwins, and the motor...
Buy a Life-Boat Calendar!
Buy a Life-boat Calendar! THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and...
Category: Articles
Macedonia and the Robert Stevenson
On the 4th August this Life-boat was again launched to the assistance of the brigs Macedonia, of Blyth, bound from Havana to Peterhead, and the Robert Stevenson, of Shields, from Archangel to London, which vessels, having been caught in a...
Mystic, of Newport
On the 2nd Jan., 1873, the Princess of Wales Life-boat at this station, in answer to signals of distress, proceeded to the brig Mystic, of Newport, which she leached shortly before midnight.
Previous efforts had been made...
Three Triumphant Waves from (I to R) Dawn Moore Her Husband Jon and Maggie
Three triumphant waves from (I to r) Dawn Moore, her husband Jon and Maggie Annat. They have just completed a remarkable 22 week circumnavigation of Britain by canoe. All three are instructors at Outward Bound Wales at Aberdovey and Dawn and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs