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Focus on Scarborough
WHEN I arrived at Scarborough, on the Yorkshire coast, night was falling. Down on the fish pier lights twinkled as the wind, the restless wind, tugged at lamp fittings. Sand, like powdered snow, drifted along the promenade, and the wind...
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RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues each year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Rheinland
During a severe gale from the E.S.E. and a heavy sea, at 1.20 P.M.
on the 4th December, the barque Rheinland, of Hamburg, laden with timber, was being towed to the Tyne Harbour by the steam-tug Skylark. On arriving within...
THIEVES to SHAME
After a charity box containing up to about £20 had been stolen from the lounge bar of the City of London public house, Gravesend, Kent, a 'mystery' women put the thieves to shame when she walked in and handed the landlord a...
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Services of the Life-Boats In March, April, May and June, 1953. 64 Lives Rescued
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Services of the Life-Boats In April, May and June, 1957. 113 Lives Rescued
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Festivity
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a man at Hope Cove had reported hear- ing a wireless message that a vessel was in distress in Mevagissey Bay. At 5.45 the life-boat...
Fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).
fishing vessel run aground and listing heavily off Calve Island in Strathclyde (see above).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Valentina An Ex-Norfolk and Suffolk Lifeboat: When Built In 1893 She Was Named Hearts of Oak and And Stationed at Sea Palling
Valentina, an ex-Norfolk and Suffolk lifeboat: when built in 1893 she was named Hearts of Oak and and stationed at Sea Palling.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs