THE question has often been asked—why are not life-boats propelled by steam power? It is a very natural question when we consider the difficulty of rowing any boat against a strong wind, and the much greater difficulty of doing so when, in...
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20 March: Lymington and Yarmouth Five people onboard a 12m yacht, Sea Jay IV, called for help when her mast collapsed and went overboard after catastrophic gear failure in high winds off Hurst Castle. Lymington...
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On the evening of the 6th March, a ship was seen to be aground on St. Patrick's Causeway, 10 miles from Criccieth, where the life-boat is stationed. At 9 p.m. the life-boat pro- ceeded to her aid, under oars, against a heavy westerly...
PALLING and WINTERTON.—Guns having been fired by the North Hasborough Lightship on the 26th November, during a strong W.S.W. wind and a heavy sea, the Palling No. 2 Life-boat British Work- •inan and the Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Husband put...
Retiring from athletics has also made it easier for this highly successful woman to do the job she loves best: being a mum to her 5-year-old daughter (pictured above).. - View image in PDF
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FOR the second year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, | gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to about 160 children living in the neighbourhood of the Storeyard. It was...
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GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...
Cromer, Norfolk - At 5.27 p.m. on 2nd March, 1968, the coxswain and motor mechanic saw distress flares from a small vessel two miles north west of the life-boathouse. The lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed was launched at 5.35 in a light north...
South Eastern Division Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy....
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BRIGHTON.—The barque Bruckley Castle, of Glasgow, bound from Grimsby for Santos, Brazil, with coal and railway sleepers, in bringing up in order to land a pilot, in a moderate gale from E.N.E.
and a rough sea, stranded...