IN the year 1851 the first self-righting Life-boat was built by Mr. JAMES BEECHING, the well-known boat-builder, at Yarmouth, who had obtained the prize of 1007., which had been offered in the previous year by Admiral the DUKE of...
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Eleven-hourservice in Force 11 winds saves six Coxswain David Mason could hardly have known how many 'firsts' he was going to notch up when he took Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new Trent class to sea at 0500 on 29...
Clacton-on'Sea, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—Early on the morning of the 25th October the yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch, with one man on board, got intodifficulties near the Mid-Barrow...
Five saved from stranded fishing vessel THE 75ft MFV Graceful begins to break up shortly after her crew of five had been taken off by Arklow's Mersey class lifeboat in the early hours of 28 November 1997.
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AT 6.20 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the honorary secretary of the Dunmore East, Co. Waterford, life-boat station, Mr. A. Westcott-Pitt, learnt from the coxswain, Patrick Power, that two barges, which had been shelter- ing in...
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Manx Memories and Movements, by Samuel Norris, Isle of Man: The Norris Modern Press, Ltd., 12s. 6d.
MR. NORRIS is an English journalist who, in 1894, when not yet twenty years old, landed in the Isle of...
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PENZANCE.—This Life-boat establish- ment has been entirely renewed by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a handsome new boat-house, provided with a bell-turret and bell, having been erected on a more convenient site, granted to the...
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ST. IVES, CORNWALL.-—At 8 A.M. on the 17th April, blowing hard from E.N.E., in consequence of signals of distress from the French dandy Henri et Helene, of Nantes, the Life-boat Covent Garden went out of the river and placed a pilot and 2...
CULLERCOATS.—On the 20th November the Reliance fishing-coble, which had gone out at 4 A.M. for the purpose either of piloting or fishing, was returning to the harbour at about 9.30, by which time the sea had much increased, and it was...