Ashore at Walton-On-The-Naze. - View image in PDF
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Wrecked on the Isle of Wight, 8th April, 1937. (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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The services of this Life-boat were also called into requisition on the 31st December, on the afternoon of which day a large vessel, distant some eight miles to the eastward of Sidmouth, was seen flying a flag of distress, during stormy...
JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...
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More than £1,000 was collected at the third annual wine lasting evening organised bv Lvmm branch. Nenrlv 150 people sampled various wines on offer, supplied bv G and J Greenall. Pictured lasting one of the wines arc Chris Miller,... - View image in PDF
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Padstow, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy lying betweenPentire Head and the Meols had fired a red flare. At 8.20, one hour before high water,...
COBLE BROKEN DOWN Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.50 in the afternoon of the 15th of Decem- ber, 1947, the coastguard reported a fishing coble burning flares three miles south-east of Hauxley Point. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was...
The Castle Museum, York, has a section called 'Kirkgate' which contains a reconstructed nineteenth century street complete with shops of that era. In November the museum kindly allowed local RNLI supporters to hold a fashion soiree... - View image in PDF
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DEC. 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 11 P.M. a heavy explosion was heard, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 11.20 P.M. A N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. The life-boat found the S.S. Corea, of Goole,...
Shortly after 5 A. M, on the llth October, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Sizewell Bank, and the No. 2 Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched. A strong S.E. by E. wind was blowing, and a nasty sea was breaking on the Sand...