Special Gifts for the Pwehase of the following Life-boats ;- Hornsea, Yorkshire.
Skerries, Co. .Dublin .
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AT 9.26 on the night of the 21st of October, 1955, the Southend coxswain, Sidney Page, learnt from the coast- guard that the S.S. Cardiff brook had wirelessed that she had seen a ship aground one mile north-north-west of the North-East Mouse...
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Margate, Kent.—At about 8.30 A.M.
on the 3rd August the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on Margate Sand west of the North Sand Beacon. The sea was choppy, with a strong westerly wind. At 8.40 A.M.
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Tow in strong gale A VESSEL DRIFTING DANGEROUSLY close to land at Caldrine Bay was reported to HM Coastguard on the afternoon ofJanuary 10. The Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 1300. Of the...
THE War, which caused such an inter- ruption in neatly every branch of national and international life, very soon led to a complete cessation of the exchange of journals and reports between this Institution and the Life-boat Services of our...
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SAFE SAILING MODERN DESIGNED LIFE-JACKETS Comfortable to wear with maximum buoyancy L1FEBOUYS . LIGHTS . LIFE-RAFTS FIRST-AID KITS AND FLARES WET SUITS AND ALL SAILING WEAR LIST ON REQUEST CAPTAIN O. M. WATTS LTD.
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APRIL 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Several fishing boats were out, and as rough seas were breaking across the harbour entrance, the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 11.15 A.M. She escorted into harbour a...
— The brigantine Lenore, of Eaversham, carrying a crew of six hands, whilst bound to London on the 5th April, got into difficulties near the mouth of Harwich Harbour, owing to a strong easterly gale. Shortly before 5 P.M. she displayed...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—After a sudden heavy squall about eight o'clock in the morning on the 17th of December, 1949, the coastguard and coxswain observed that a number of small fishing cobles were in danger of being swamped by the seas....