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The Latvian Steamer Taut Mila (1)
JANUARY 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND CROMER, NORFOLK.
News was received at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that an open boat containing sixteen survivors from the Latvian steamer Taut Mila, which had been damaged...
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
Ix the issue of The Life-boat for last September an article was published on the pension fund which was formed to provide for the forty-two dependants of the nine life-boatmen who lost their lives when the Caister No. 2 life-boat was wrecked...
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Front Cover
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The Whaler Paul
Dover, Kent.—On the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1952, the whaler Paul, of Dover, with three boys from Dover College on board, was blown out of the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 3.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...
H.M.S. Lundy and her Cutters
NOVEMBER 5TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.2 in the afternoon a message from H.M.S.
Lundy, which was anchored off Deal, was received through the Deal coastguard, that a cutter from the Lundy, with a crew of seven, had been engaged...
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
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The S.S. Saturnus
NEWHAVEN. — The Life-boat Michael Henry was launched at 2.20 P.M. on the 23rd March, a ship having been reported ashore and proceeded to Crowlink where the s.s. Saturnus, of Amsterdam, homeward bound with a general cargo, was found stranded....
The Barrels Lightvessel
PATIENT TRANSFERRED Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 9.10 a.m.
on 14th October, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the use of the life-boat to transfer a sick man from the Barrels lightvessel. The sea was smooth and it was two...
Invermore, of Dublin (6)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
The S.S. Marsworth
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.27 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Marsworth, of London, had wirelessed that she was sinking.
She had...