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| The Coastguard Cutter 2.25
The Coastguard Cutter 2.25 Apr/May/June 2018. Issue 25 E33. THE LAST ROCKET RESCUE AT BRAY. A Coast Life-saving service was established in Greystones in the nineteenth century under the British Government, and when Independence for the Twenty-six Counties was won in 1922, this Service was taken over and continued by the Department of Industry and Commerce in the newly established Irish Free State. |
| Old Wagon |
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| CRE wagon for moving rocket gear |
| Rocket |
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| Cgs and Aux firing Rocket over Ross Genet
The picture Shows CG Silcock CG Craigie
and Aux Maxwell of Mablethorpe CRE team
The ship was the Ross Genet in 1968 |
| Alwich Rocket House |
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| Alwich Rocket House |
| Portrush Rocket Life Saving Company
Portrush Rocket Life Saving Company, who were volunteers under Coastguard management, used this Wreck Post on Ramore Head for their quarterly practice exercises (one of which was always carried out in darkness). With the post representing a ship’s mast, a Boxer Rocket (named after the military engineer Captain Boxer) could carry a line up to 200 yards from ‘shore’ to the team at the ‘mast’. |
| Lifesaving by Coastguardsmen
The Lifeboats owned and managed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution are stationed at almost every point of our extensive seaboard where loss of life through shipwreck is most to be feared; while the services performed by their crews every year, unostentatiously, and in the ordinary course of duty, are such as would do honour to any age or nation. |
