THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- srmrnoN, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned. The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
Famous Shipwrecks.
" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...
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GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.48 on the morning of the llth August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had put out earlier in the evening with the owner and his son on board to go fishing and...
COMMANDER DRURY has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., inspector of life-boats for the Eastern district.
Commander Vaux was educated at the Rojral Naval Colleges of...
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One of the 19 life-boats which went to Dunkirk at the end of May 1940, never returned. Four months later the Manchester and Salford branch launched a special appeal for £10,000 to replace this boat. It will be the 29th. life-boat...
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APRIL 13TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.50 in the morning a Wellington bomber crashed in the sea a mile northwest of the life-boat station. The southerly breeze was light, the sea calm. As the coxswain and crew of the...
The P. & O. liner Oceana, which left London on the 15th March, with a large number of passengers, for Bombay, collided when off Beachy Head in the early morning of the 16th March with the German barque Pisagua.
The...
HOLYHEAD.—On the 8th May news was brought by a steamer that a three-masted schooner was wrecked on the Skerries.
The Life -boat Thomas Fielden was manned at 9 A.M., was towed by the steamer to the scene of the disaster, and...