Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the 18th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat from the Swedish tanker Sira of Vaster- vik, with a crew of four, had not re- turned...
The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman in 1977 has been given to Coxswain Thomas Walsh of Kilmore.
On December 24 the lifeboat under his command was capsized twice while investigating...
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Barrow, Lancashire, and Maryport, Cumberland.—During the morning of the 16th January, 1938, a man reported to the Whitehaven police that he had seen rockets off the coast between Seascale and Sellafield, about twentyeight miles by sea from...
Hazardous as two casualties are brought to safety The rescue of two persons trapped at the end of a breakwater by heavy breaking seas has led to David Porritt, helmsman of Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 class lifeboat being awarded the...
THE above well-known motto of the British "Royal Marines " has been nobly illustrated by the deeds of that dis- tinguished corps in every part of the globe, and wherever, on land or sea, its services have been required, its famous...
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The first process. Dividing a crook for stems. It weighed 5 tons and the tree was about 200 years old.. - View image in PDF
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Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 10.10 on the night of the 4th of September, 1959, the coxswain received a message from Abersoch that a 14-feet motor boat with three men on board was overdue. The boat had last been seen at six o'clock off...
From Brazil.
A GIFT of £5 has been received from the staff of the Western Telegraph Company at Maranhao, in Northern Brazil.
Australian's Gift from a Sweepstake.
A gift of...
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JANUARY 21ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
As the local motor fishing coble Shiela was long overdue, and could not be seen, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 5.55 in the evening, as night was coming on, to look for her....
Walkers saved from submerged rockThe skilled actions, in difficult conditions, of helmsman Ronnie Davies, 43, of the Borth lifeboat, saved the lives of two walkers, trapped on a sea-battered rock beneath Borth Head.
At 1920...