JUNE 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. A small pleasure boat had been reported overdue, but was found abandoned on the rocks, east of Hastings. - Rewards, £23 7s. 9d..
OCTOBER 22ND. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
A fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties, but the life-boat was not needed. - Rewards, £5 14s..
DECEMBER 31ST. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. A boat with twenty men on board had been reported adrift in the Dee Channel, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Rhyl. £20 15s. ; Hoylake, £31 3s. 6d..
APRIL 22ND. - TORBAY, DEVON. A rowing boat with two sailors on board had not returned, but next morning it was found on Preston Beach. - Rewards, £8 4s.
EVEN the most sanguine supporters of the "Life-boat Saturday" movement cannot fail to be gratified with the remarkable manner in which this popular organisation, aided by the Ladies' Committees, formed as an auxiliary for...
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Welcome to Sir Jock The RNLI has a new Chairman following the retirement of Peter Nicholson CBECommenting on the Trustee Committee's appointment of Admiral Sir Jock Slater CCB LVO DL in July, RNU Chief Executive Andrew Freemantle said:...
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Launches 37. Lives rescued 14.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning news was received by wireless from the S.S. Irish Willow that she had on board forty-seven survivors from the S.S. Empire...
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A CAPSIZED YACHT Plymouth, Devon.—At 5.12 in the afternoon of the 24th of May, 1947, the Yealm coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized a quarter of a mile north-east of Mewstone at the mouth of Yealm River, and the motor life-boat...
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 271 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, mil serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 304 Life-boat Stations of...
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