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TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
Category: Advertisement
Aberdovey: Long Life Iii
Aberdovey: Long Life III being returned to her boathouse after a demonstration launch on Monday May 28, the day of her official handing over and dedication. The Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was paid for out of funds raised in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Most Lives Saved
Feature The most lives saved A hundred years ago, a liner full of passengers needed saving off the Cornish coast – one lifeboat just wasn’t going to be enough After months at sea, the White Star liner Suevic was within hours of completing...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the "Endeavour."
ON the 6th of May last a small schooner, the Endeavour, of Ipswich, was driven on shore in Polkerris Bay, about one mile north-west of Fowey, on the south coast of Cornwall. As soon as her perilous situa- tion was observed, the Coast-guard...
Category: Services
The S.S. Yewglen
FEBRUARY 10TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. A t 8.20 P.M. fishermen reported that a vessel was ashore on the Outer Carrs Rocks, north of Newbiggin Point. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
A Guinea for a Paper Flag
ON Life-boat Day in Blackheath Village, one of the collectors visited a factory where an auction was being held of the building and plant.
She asked the auctioneer to put up one of her paper flags. This he did, and it was...
Category: Donations
A Small Tank Steamer
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—23rd November, 1938. A small tank steamer, with her engine broken down, had dragged her anchor near the West Sunk Sands, but she did not need help.
—Rewards, £24 19s..
A Barge
APRIL 7TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A barge had been reported sinking, but she had sunk, and there was no sign of her crew when the life-boat arrived. A steamer had gone ashore, but tugs were standing by her and she did not need the...
A Vessel (9)
MARCH 5TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A vessel attached to the balloon barrage service had been reported to be in difficulties, but did not need help. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 6S. 9d..
Maren
WEYMOUTH.—On the morning of the 1st November several vessels were reported to be driving out of Portland Boads towards the shore, and the crew of the Agnes Harriet Life-boat were summoned, and remained in readiness in case their services...