Two men serving in the merchant navy took the places of two absent men in the Maryport life-boat when she put out in a gale to search for an aeroplane. They were given the same rewards as the life-boatmen, nineteen shillings each. One of...
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CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.
A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...
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Terrible Winter Storms.
THE year 1925 was, until November, unusually calm, and this fact is reflected in the number of lives rescued, 383, as compared with 454 in 1924. la the last nine weeks of the year, however, there...
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THE year prior to the re-organization of this now great Institution marked the lowest state of depression to which " The National Shipwreck Institution," as it was then called, had reached. Its income, derived from subscriptions,...
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SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patroness — HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
Vice Patron His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE or WALES, E.G.
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—While bound for Newcastle the oil tanker Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by enemy action off Aldeburgh on 10thSeptember, 1939. Information reached the life-boat station...
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Finishing touches being made to the exhibits at Cove and Kilcreggan branch flower show. It is an annual event and is growing in popularity and size all the time. Last year's show, which was opened by the Reverend C. K. O. Spence,... - View image in PDF
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