Mr. Francis Roxburgh, at one time assistant judge in the Lord Mayor's Court, a member of the Paddington branch committee, collecting on life-boat day in Greater London.. - View image in PDF
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MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...
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DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A fearful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss...
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The first two life-boats for the Italian life-boat service, which is about to be formed, will both be of the 52-foot Barnett type. They are being built by Groves and Guttridge at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
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Drifting out to sea, Helen Hunt thought her time was up Sandra and Helen Hunt, two women from Birmingham, were on holiday at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire on 1 September 2005. They were enjoying playing on their inflatable dinghies, until they...
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Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of Spurn Light...
RETURNED SAFELY At 8.45 a.m. on 3rd June, 1964, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that there was a heavy swell on the harbour bar and that four local fishing boats were still at sea. At 9 a.m. the lifeboat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March 1880, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
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— At 6.15 P.M. on the 30th April the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched to the assistance of a large steamer ashore on the Goodwin Sands. On arrival at the stranded vessel five Life-boatmen were placed on board the stranded...