ANY person who has travelled on our seacoasts, and has been in the habit of conversing with the fishermen and other seamen at the various ports, fishing-towns, and wateringplaces, on the subject of their rendering assistance to shipwrecked...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. On the morn- ing of the 4th August, 1961, when the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was returning to her station from Brightlingsea after a service the day before, the coxswain decided to in- vestigate the position of a...
THE following is a Return, compiled from Parliamentary Documents, of the number of ships which entered inwards, and cleared outwards, from British ports, during the year 1861; that for 1862 not having as yet been published:— Ships. Tone.<...
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A NOVEL form of appeal was tried in Norwich this year. In place of a life-boat flag day, a silent appeal was made. There were no collectors.
Instead twenty-six large life-boat col- lecting boxes, hung on davits, were placed...
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Rhyl, Flintshire - At 12.20 p.m. on 1st October,, 1966, a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off the boathouse.
The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 12.50 in a fresh north westerly wind, gusting to...
JUNE 27TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but a fishing boat rescued the pilot.
The life-boat towed in the aeroplane.- Rewards, £5 2s. 6d. (For a full account, see “ Services by...
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 3.5. on the morning of the 30th Nov- ember, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Hada II of Rotterdam was ashore on Sailers bank but in no immediate danger. Forty...
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—A fleet of twenty yawls, engaged in flounder fishing in St. Andrew's Bay, left Broughty Ferry between seven and eight o'clock on the morning of the 4th March, the weather being fine with a moderate breeze from...
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On a shout like this, when the crew has been woken up in the early hours of the morning and they’re tired, it helps that everything is already second nature to them. For Jordan (Tuckwell,... - View image in PDF
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At Christmas, in 1927, a choir of twelve, got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, went carol singing, and were so successful that they were able to send £25 to the Institution. Last Christmas the effort...
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