On the 23rd December a small open boat, the Con- stance, of Eyemouth, was returning home in a very heavy sea, and as it was realized that the men on board wouJd be in serious danger if any attempt was made to go into harbour, the Life-boa...
THANKS to the energy of the BOARD or TRADE we are enabled to draw the attention of our readers several months earlier than we had anticipated, to the facts and figures contained in the Blue Book compiled from the Wreck Register for the year...
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ILFRACOMBE.—On the morning of the 29th December, the Go-Operator No. 2 Life-boat was launched, a message having been received at about half-past nine stating that a vessel, which proved to be the barque Catarina, of Savona, was in distress...
THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 25th of March, 1958. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
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THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
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Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.
The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...
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RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that he had heard on his private wireless set a message from a Dutch ship reporting a body seen in the sea nine miles east of...