At 2 P.M. on 21st November, the same Life-boat was launehed to the disabled Norwegian brig Brodrenes Saab, of Tons- berg, which vessel exhibited signals of distress, it blowing hard at the time from the N.N.E. At the request of the master...
At 5.15 p.m. on 20th August, 1966, a cabin cruiser was reported in distress in the Rock Channel. At 5.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings. The sea was calm. It was four hours after high water. The cabin cruiser Comet was...
On the 2nd February it was blowing a whole E.N.E.
gale and a very heavy sea was running in the bay, endangering a large coble which had been left at anchor, and was then in broken water. As it was not safe for the fishermen...
THE Life-boat Calendar for 1932 is now ready. It has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting which Mr.
Charles Dixon, R.I., has very kindly done for the Institution called " At the Height of the Storm." It...
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Ahoy there! It was all hands to the deck when members of Royslon and District branch manned a stall at their local late-night shopping festivities last Christmas. It was a very cold night with temperatures around freezing but the small but... - View image in PDF
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By Mr. OTTAR VOGT, Secretary of the Norwegian Society for the Rescue of the Shipwrecked.
THE coast of Norway is very extensive and mountainous, rocky and precipitous all over — the whole coastline being guarded by a fence...
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THERE was once afi actor-manager who set out to produce a drama which was ' to take the whole of London by storm. I Wherefore, regardless of expense, he ! secured a caste of the most eminent I actors and actresses in...
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MARGATE.—About 4.40 p.m., on the 21st March, a telegram was received from Lloyd's agent at Whitstable stating that a brigantine had stranded on the Red Sand and that her crew were apparently in jeopardy. A strong gale was blowing from...
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...