NOVEMBER 18TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fire had been seen nine to ten miles north-west of Kinnaird Head. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the night was dark. The motor...
RYE, SUSSEX. — At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was...
Category: Services
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obeerm.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
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DURING December, 1951, life-boats went out on service 35 times and rescued 15 lives.
ENGINE BROKEN DOWN Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had...
Category: Services
PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN.—The Lifeboat Annie and Mary of Manchester was launched at 9 A.M. on the 31st January to the assistance of the trawler Lily of the West, of Douglas, which had been disabled by loss of sails. A strong wind was blowing...
THE hundred and fourteenth annual meeting of the Governors of the In- stitution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, at 3 P.M. on Wednesday, llth May. Over 1,800 people were present.
H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.,...
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IN the Journal of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION it is fitting that there should appear a brief account of the history and functions of the Cor- poration of Trinity House, the General Lighthouse and Pilotage Authority for the...
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The fishing lugger Bee, of Winterton, with three men on board, went out in the morning of the 5th April. The wind backed to the S.E. in the afternoon, and a heavy sea set in rendering it impossible for the boat to land. She was watched from...
APRIL 20TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane towing a target had come down in the sea about two miles west of the harbour. Most of the regular life-boat crew were out...