Anyone who thinks the world of Freemasonry is shrouded in mystery and self-service obviously didn’t get a taste of OrangeAid. Alluding to the distinctive RNLI lifeboat livery, the OrangeAid appeal saw Essex members of the United Grand Lodge...
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AT 6.20 on the morning of the 7th August, 1962, Mr. A. J. Tart, the honor- ary secretary of the Dungeness station, was told by Lade coastguard that the German vessel Erfurt had reported seeing a small boat showing a red light about ten and a...
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OKME'S HEAD, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 4 o'clock on the morning of the 28th April, during a strong E.N.E. wind and a rough sea, one of the Life-boat crew saw a man coming ashore in. a punt from the yacht Wave, of Liverpool. The boat...
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...
At 6 P.M. on the 29th November it was reported that a steamer was ashore on the bar at the entrance to Newhaven Harbour. There was a moderate gale blowing and the tide was low; it was realized therefore that the steamer must be in a...
On the 30th June information was received that a yacht appeared to be ashore near the Cork Sand. She was kept under observation by the coastguard, and it was decided to send the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. to her. She left at 7.25 P.M., and...
Ilfracombe, Devon.—At one in the early morning of the 7th of July, 1950, the coastguard transmitted a radio message received from the steamer Kocquaine. She was off Lundy in company with the motor yacht Ebb Tide, disabled by an...
JUNE 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that an American Fortress aeroplane had crashed in the sea to the south-east. The life-boatmen had already seen a parachute coming down. A light westerly wind was...
THORPE.—On the 10th November, the schooner Margaret, of Goole, riding off Thorpeness during a S.S.W. gale, was observed to drag her anchor. She slipped her cable, but her rudder chains broke, she became unmanageable, and drove on to the...
HORNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—A new life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been placed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Horn- sea, in lieu of an old boat at that place, which was of an unwieldy and inferior construction, and in which the...
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