Injured boy IN THE EARLY EVENING of Monday May 10, a skin diver, David Morrison, was ashore at Bovisand Beach, 2!/2 miles south east of Plymouth lifeboat station, when he saw a boy trying to attract attention on the opposite side of the bay....
Ix 1949 the Life-boat Service set up a new record. Its life-boats went out to the rescue 639 times. That is the largest number there has ever been in time of peace. In time of war it has been exceeded only thrice, in 1939, 1940 and 1941.<...
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LXX. HUNSTANTON.—Licensed Victualler, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
A distinction should be made between old and new Hunstanton; the latter, commonly known by the name of Hunstanton St. Edmunds, is situate about a mile south...
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THE YEAR 1974 began in an atmosphere of gloom and anxiety with industry limited to a three-day week and restrictions on lighting recalling wartime blackouts.
The first month of the year was also one in which there were...
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WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—A telephone message was received from the coastguard at Galloways, stating that a ketch was ashore, on the morning of the 23rd February. The Life-boat John William Dudley was launched at 8.40, in a rough sea, a strong S....
BROADSTARS.—The reserve Life-boat temporarily placed at this station was launched at 9 P.M. on the 12th May, in a heavy rolling sea and a N.N.E. wind, and proceeded to the assistance of a vessel which had burnt flares off the North Foreland....
Date of Wreck.
1861.
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WORTHING.— On the 10th February, at about 5.50 P.M., the schooner Teresa,, of Weymoata, bound from Guernsey to London, with granite, was observed drivj ing on shore. A strong gale of wind from the S. was blowing and the sea was...
Yacht saved in darkness SEVERE GALE TO STORM FORCE SOUthsouth- westerly winds were blowing on the night of Sunday May 25 when a message reached the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station that a 24ft yacht with auxiliary engine, Star...
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain William J. Hughes, of Rhyl, who retired at the end of 1948 after serving for 21 years as an officer of the life-boat..
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