POET ERIN, ISLE or MAN.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th August, during a whole W.N.W. gale, the fishing-boat Fear Not, was seen to miss stays and drift towards the rocks. The Life-boat William Sugden was immediately launched, but before she...
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On the 6th December after dark, several of the fishing vessels of the port being known to be off it, and expected to take the bar of the river under somewhat trying circumstances, the Life- boat China was held in readiness. It was blowing a...
FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
A fragment* 'MIDST the thick darkness Death, The dread inexorable monarch, stalked ; And, lo! his icy breath Encircled the devoted barque where talked, Or laughed, or watched, or slept, The doomed three hundred of her living freight,...
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FULL RANGE ON DISPLAY IN OUR LONDON SHOWROOM Write for illustrated catalogue of compasses Henry Browne*Son Limited Compass...
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On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...
its appointed coxswain at a salary of 8/., and an assistant at 22. a year. The crew consists, in addition, of a bowman, and as many boatmen as the boat pulls oars. The members of the volunteer crews are registered, and wherever practicable,...
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by Maggie Murray The four lifeboatmen who received their awards at the Festival Hall on 22 May.
From left to right: Coxswain David Kennett, Yarmouth; Helmsman David Steenvoorden, Cleethorpes; Coxswain Peter Race, Teesmouth... - View image in PDF
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Holed yacht A YACHT ADRIFT in a strong southerly gale and in very large breaking seas two miles off the Wittering shore in Bracklesham Bay and drifting westwards was reported to the lifeboat authority of Hayling Island ILB station by HM...