Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 14th of November.
1956, the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched to escort the motor fishing cobles Betty and Rosemary to harbour in very bad...
On the 25th Jan. the brig ! Ercole, of Naples, was descried off St.Anne's Head in a distressed and (in the i judgment of the crew) hopeless condition ; they haying, in consequence of her dis- I abled state, anchored their vessel on a...
Spirit of Lowestoft Lowestott's New Tyne Class Waits For Her Official Name With Gorleston's Waveney and Southwold's Atlantic 21 In The Background. - View image in PDF
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ON the night on 9th January signals of a vessel in distress were seen off Tor Ness at the south-west end of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull.
It was then ten minutes...
Category: Services
Launch of Sennen Cove lifeboat, Ann Newbon (on station 1893-1922). Colonel Cornish, in white collar, is standing on the beach.. - View image in PDF
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1935 64,159 A Winter Passage in a Motor Life-boat.
By Mr....
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BY the death, on 30th December, 1930, at the age of seventy-four, of Sir Charles Wilson, LL.D., F.S.A.A., Chairman of its Leeds Branch, the Institution has lost one of the most distinguished of its honorary workers. In spite of his many...
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AT half-past two in the afternoon, of 12th February last, the Ramsgate Lifeboat and tug were called out by a message from the Coast Guard that a vessel— found afterwards to be the ketch Lord Hamilton—was ashore on the north-east part of the...
HORNSEA.—On the 13th November the ketch Germ, of Goole, riding at anchor 1 mile south of Hornsea, was seen to hoist signals of distress. The Life-boat Ellen and Margaret of Settle was thereon sent off to her aid; but the master declined her...
Members of Ramsgate ladies' guild slipped on their glad rags for a cockney knees-up at the Granville, Ramsgate, and tucked into a jellied eel buffet. About 80 people attended and a raffle and tombola were also held, raising £283 to... - View image in PDF
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