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Shortly after 1 A.M. on the 17th July signals of distress were seen about half a mile to the north of the harbour, and in response the Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched. She found the schooner Jessie Sinclair of Port St. Mary, with four...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- * folk.—At 2.40 A.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a vessel north of the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel had fired distress signals. The light-vessel also...
Life-boats:- EXPENDITURE. £ New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account —Angle, Courtmacsherry, Clacton, Cromer, Cromarty, Dover, Eastbourne, Fowey, Holyhead, Humber, Padstow, Southend-on-Sea, Stornoway, Stromness, Swanage,...
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Feature: The RNLI thanks you 2 The RNLI stepped into 2003 with renewed fundraising vigour. We bring you up to date on our progress Feature: We ask the questions 6 The Lifeboat finds out how the RNLI's heritage will be protected for...
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Mrs V. Gambles, honorary secretary of Bridlington ladies' guild, helps J. Ward hold both the monster Easter egg he gave to the guild to raffle and the resultant £80 cheque.
The winner of the egg gave it to children... - View image in PDF
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HASTINGS.—On the 18th February, the schooner Apollo, of Bandholm, bound from London to Cette with a cargo of currants, drove on to the rocks near Rock-a-Nore in a N.W. wind and heavy swell. The1 Lifeboat proceeded to her, and as it was found...
Having given almost two-thirds of a century to the RNLI between them, three Scottish volunteers are retiring this year. After clocking up 14 years (and 6,625 nautical miles), Peter ‘Ped’ McKinnon is retiring from his role as full-time...
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BOLD DIVE Mr. Albert Court, the full-time mechanic of the Wells, Norfolk, life-boat, was peacefully ferrying visitors in his own boat across the harbour channel on 4th July, 1971, from the Cockle Strand. There was an cast north easterly wind...
APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.
ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...