RAMSGATE.—On the 26th March, 1860, a schooner was reported to be on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The Harbour Commissioners' life-boat Northumberland was quickly towed out to her assistance by the Harbourtug Aid, there being a fresh wind...
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BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN. — A messenger having brought information at 1.30 P.M. on the 6th February that a vessel was ashore on the north end of the Long Kock, the crew of the Admiral HenryMeynell Life-boat at once assembled, and crowds of the...
With threat'uing frown the sun sinks down, And leaves a lurid sky; The cloudy rack drives swift and black, The winds rise loud and high.
The mother hears the rising storm—• Her heart is sick and sad; Her thoughts go out...
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BROUGHTY FERRY.—At one o'clock on the morning of the 18th November, the pilot-cutter No. 2 of Dundee, dragged its anchor and stranded on Abertay Sands.
Heeling over until it lay broadside to the gale, the vessel...
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 3rd January the coastguards reported that a three-masted steamer was at anchor, S.W. of Trevose Lighthouse, flying the Italian ensign half-mast high.
The Life-boat Willie Eogers was...
NUMEROUS demonstrations and collec- tions in connection with the Life-boat Saturday Fund have been arranged and admirably carried out during the past summer. The reports which have come in from all parts of the country indicate that,...
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THERE are two types of fire extinguishers in use at Life-boat Stations. The one is the liquid type, charged with carbon tetrachloride, the other is the "Total" extinguisher which is a dry powder machine. This type was first adopted...
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ON 14th June, 1933, a life-boat society was established in Roumania. The King was its founder and is its president, and the governor of the National Bank of Roumania is ex officio the vice- president. The full title of the society is...
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As reported in the " Services of the Life-boats," the motor life-boat at Stornoway, on the Island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, was called out shortly before midnight on 14th February, to the help of two fishing boats off Tolsta Head,...
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AT 12.15, early on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Walney coastguard rang up the Barrow life- boat station to say that a man living in Bootle had reported that his small daughter had seen a small boat aground half a mile south of...
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