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A Herring Coble Thankful Arthur
An E.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up on the 28th March while the small herring coble Thankful Arthur, of Filey, was at sea, and as the heavy sea showed every sign of increasing, the Life-boat Queens- bury was launched to her assistance, and...
The Old War Sloop Conflict
On the 31st of August, 1863, a large ship without masts, which afterwards proved to be the Conflict, an old sloop of war, of 2,000 tons, bound from Plymouth to Bristol, in ballast, to be broken up, was observed in tow of a steam-tug off...
The Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891. (Second Article.)
THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
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Ship Halfpennies
Ship Halfpennies The RNLI has a plan for raising money through export, for a particular purpose, of ship halfpennies. Its success must depend on the number of halfpennies collected. Anyone who is interested is asked to write to: Captain C. C...
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The Parliamentary Inquiry. The Management Vindicated and Justified
IN view of the constant serious and un- founded charges against the administration of the Institution which have for the last few years been made in certain quarters and diligently circulated, mainly through the medium of the Press, such...
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Oxygen Given to Man Trapped In Porthole
AT 1.3 on the afternoon of 8th Decem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr.
P. G. Garon, learnt from the coast- guard that the Dutch motor vessel Temar of 198 tons was on fire. She...
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Adelaide
This life-boat, which is named the Princess of Wales, went off twice and rendered valuable assistance to the barque Adelaide, of Pernambuco, bound thence from Liverpool with a cargo of cotton, which was in a very dangerous posi- tion near...
Artificer
NORTH DEAL, WALMEH, AND RAMS- GATE, KENT.—The Life-boats Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 4, and Charles and Susanna Stephens were launched a few minutes after midnight on the 4th- 5th April, in answer to signals of distress, the steamer...
One Good Turn
ON October 27th last the Life-boat at Fenit, Tralee Bay, on the west coast of Ireland, was called out to the help of three men who had put off in a tender to a fishing-smack, anchored a mile off shore. A strong gale was blow- ing, and though...
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