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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Signal - rockets were fired by the Wold Light-vessel on the morning of the 31st May last. The weather was squally, a strong breeze blowing from the KN.W., and there was a heavy sea. At 3 o'clock the No. 2 Life- boat...
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Mary Jane
In the early morning of the 19th August it was blowing a moderate gale from W.N.W., with wild squalls of wind and rain. At 3.45 A.M. it was reported that a fishing-boat when coming into the harbour had carried away her...
An Aeroplane (66)
APRIL 27TH. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the body of thepilot had already been picked up. - Rewards, £12 7s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (46)
JULY 19TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A German aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 10s..
Loss of a Liverpool Vessel.—Sagacity of a Dog
By advices from Newfoundland, Nov. 14, it appears that the brig Emma, Captain WHITE, 80 days from Liverpool, with a cargo of salt, was lost about midnight "on Saturday last, at Seal Cove, a small opening three miles north of Flat Hock,...
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Blanche Maguerite, of Dundalk
Early in the morning of the 15th January, during thick weather, the barque Blanche Mar- guerite, of Dunkirk, and bound to that port, was wrecked on a reef off Brooke Chine. The Brooke Life-boat, George and Anne, was launched, and, under the...
United States Life-Saving Service
THERE were 269 stations in this Life- saving Service at the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1900, this total being 4 in excess of that for the previous year. Of this number (269) 194 were situated on the Atlantic and...
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Was the Queen a Pilot Boat In Lagos?
Was The Queen a pilot boat in Lagos? After World War 2 I went to work in British West Africa and spent the 1950s in Lagos.
The Lagos pilot used an ex-UK lifeboat reputed to have been on the Mersey. As almost all the major... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs