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DUTCH REPORT
During 1969 life-boats of the Royal South-Holland Association for the Saving of the Shipwrecked were called out 70 times, 30 of which resulted in 111 lives being saved. Over 50 per cent, of the services last year resulted from various...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 8 February 1993 show that during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,439 times (an average of more than 14 launches a day) 1,371 lives have been saved (an average of more than 3 each...
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The S.S. Beresford (1)
WINTERTON AND PALLING. — On the night of the 31st of January last, the s.s. Beresford, of West Hartlepool, bound from Middlesbrough for Bombay, with a general cargo, stranded on Hasborough Sand during a thick fog, a S.W. wind, and a heavy...
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Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 6. Mr. G. L. Thomson, J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Stromness Branch
THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...
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Eastern Princess
RECORD NUMBER LANDED Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
At 10.2 on Tuesday the 2nd of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the pleasure boat Eastern Princess, of Yarmouth, had run aground in...
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HELP FOR WOMAN Stronsay, Orkneys. At n a.m. on ist December, 1964, a local doctor telephoned the honorary secretary to say that an expectant mother on the island of Eday needed immediate medical attention. It was 2\ hours past low water with...
Moronel
TOW LASTED 13 HOURS AT 8.10 a.m. on 11 March, 1972, the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station learnt that the yacht Moronel had requested assistance 13 miles from Bishop Rock. The maroons were fired at 8.22...
The Naming of the 52Ft Relief Lifeboat Dwctoso/Ken/
THE PERFECT SUNNY AFTERNOON of Tu6Sday April 27 seemed to take on extra brightness when Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at the Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, to name the relief 52ft Arun lifeboat Duchess of Kent....
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