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One Stop Beyond, Racing In Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969,

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

When the dinghy One Stop Beyond, racing in Dublin Bay on 22nd August, 1969, broke her rudder near the harbour and started drifting seawards, her crew of two used paddles in the near gale force wind to reach security of a... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Portrait on the Cover

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Jeffrey Wright who, after serving for 10 years as bowman of the Fleetwood life-boat, was its coxswain from the autumn of 1933 until the end of 1947.

He won the silver medal for...

Category: Articles

The Late Mr. E. W. Cooke, R.A., F.R.S.

Date: February 1880

Volume: 11

Issue: 115

We lament to record the death, on the 4th January last, of this distinguished marine artist and Member of the Royal Academy.

By Mr. Cooke's death the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION . has lost one of its oldest friends....

Category: Obituaries

Tamar on trial

Date: Summer 2010

Volume: 61

Issue: 592

The Tamar class is the RNLI’s newest and most sophisticated all-weather lifeboat, and its roll out continues. This year, Ireland’s first Tamar arrives at Kilmore Quay. Bembridge and Shoreham Harbour are also on the 2010 Tamar list and, in...

Category: Articles

Barrus

Date: Summer 1988

Volume: 51

Issue: 505

Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.

It proves it! It vou re considering buying an outboard, . -*" " — whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every jf manufacturer promises greater...

Category: Advertisement

Amor

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

During a strong gale from the S.W., on the morning of the 1st De- cember, signal-guns were fired from the Gull Light Ship. The Aid steam-tug and the- Bradford life-boat were immediately got ready, and in the course of twenty mi- nutes...

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: November 1873

Volume: 08

Issue: 90

CEMAES, ANGLESEY. — The 30-feet 6- oared Life-boat, at Cemlyn, on the coast of Anglesey, has been transferred from that place to Cemaes, about four miles to the eastward. Since the lighthouse has been placed on one of the islands opposite...

Category: Articles

June (1)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

JUNE MEETING PORTREATH, CORNWALL. At 9.10 in the morning of the 7th January, 1942, a coastguard saw a rubber dinghy in the sea one and a half miles N.W. of Portreath look-out.

A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...

Category: Services

The Wreck Register and Chart for 1869

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

THE Annual Wreck Register has made its appearance in the midst of two calamities which are nearly overpowering iN their vastness and destructiveness. The war which rages with such fearful havoc on the Continent of Europe, and the foundering...

Category: Annual Reports

The Port Erin Experiment

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

THE first life-boat to be fitted with diesel engines was completed in 1936, and since 1952 diesel engines have been installed in all new life-boats. Never- theless, there are still an appreciable number of life-boats in the fleet which have...

Category: Articles