ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION carried out at Lowestoft in 1892 a series of competitive trials and tests with, sailing Life-boats the details of which were subsequently published. The trials with the various types of pulling Life-boats...
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At 7 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd November, a message was received from the Coast- guard, stating that a vessel was in dis- tress about four miles to the east of Newhaven. The signal was fired, and within a quarter of an hour the...
Caister, Norfolk.—About 5.15 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1951, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned that a ship was ashore on the Scroby Sands, but -not in immediate danger. At 6.15 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched in...
Titanic – The Ship That Never Sank?
By Robin Gardiner
Review by Jon Jones
In 1912 the unthinkable happened – the unsinkable Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. Or did it? It seems that for...
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From a Boy of Seven.
The following letter, enclosing 3s., from St. Edmunds, West Mersea, near Colchester, was received by the Honorary Secretary at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston not long after the service to the Georgia, in...
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The Story of the Weston-Super- Mare Lifeboats The Story of the Eastbourne Lifeboats Written and published by Jeff Morris Two more in the series of detailed 'station history' booklets written and produced by Jeff Morris - with Dave...
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THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, fully recognising the responsi- bility which rests upon it to provide the Life-boat crews with the best possible means for conducting their life-saving work, decided in the year 1891 to carry out a...
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OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (The figure* refer to the number* of the Hfe-boatt detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.") A. F. H., 134.
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ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to April 30th, 1952 77,697 The Great Exhibition of 1851: The Festival of Britain 1951 IN 1851 a...
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