THERE are few sailors in the habit of trading to the river who will not be acquainted with the Swan, a dandy-rigged cutter, that serves as the Thames Floating Church, and may generally be seen lying alongside one of the sections of colliers...
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SIR WILLIAM HILLARY'S " An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck," was published early in the year 1823, the preface...
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FALMOUTH.—The full-rigged ship Vondel> of Amsterdam, bound from Liverpool for Port Adelaide with a cargo of superphosphates, stranded on the rocks near St. Mawes Castle Point, in an extremely dangerous position, having dragged her anchor...
DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured man off the S.S. Harmattan.
The...
This life-boat, which is named the Princess of Wales, went off twice and rendered valuable assistance to the barque Adelaide, of Pernambuco, bound thence from Liverpool with a cargo of cotton, which was in a very dangerous posi- tion near...
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KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—At 11.30 P.M.
on the llth December it was reported that some fishermen were in danger on board a wreck on the North Bull Sands. It appeared that a number of open boats were fishing near the spot when a...
BOOKs From cargos of coffee and tobacco to the thrills of speedboat testing, from learning the ropes to total disaster - Carol Waterkeyn and Sam Price review four more titles to bring you closer to the sea Unless other ordering details are...
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David Wells, has been helmsman of Clacton-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat and a crew member of the station's D class lifeboat since 1983. From 1972 he was a crew member of the station's allweather lifeboat which was replaced in... - View image in PDF
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In consequence of information brought into this port by the fishing smack Summer Cloud, at noon on the 12th April, the steam-tug Vulcan left the harbour with the Life-boat Bradford in tow, and made for the Long Sand, a shoal at the entrance...