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Service to St Margarite: On the evening of December 22. 1979. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Kliami rescued the crew of two of the fishing vessel St Margarite aground on Scrohy Sands in a strong north-easterly...
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Cromer, Norfolk.—At 8.32 in the morning of the 25th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Monte Nuria, of Bilbao, bound from Immingham to Buenos Aires with a cargo of coal, was aground at Sheringham. She had struck a sub-...
Walmer, Kent. — At 6.23 on the night of the 21st of December, 1951, a vessel was reported to be on the Goodwin Sands in Trinity Bay, and at 6.30 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2, was launched.
The weather...
IN December, 1859, the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION presented to Mr. CHARLES CLIFFORD, of London, a vote of thanks,' inscribed on vellum, in acknowledgment of his indefatigable exertions in inventing and...
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ST. AGNES, SCILLT ISLANDS. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat establishment at Priglis Bay, St. Agnes, it being considered very desirable to place a second Life-boat on the Scilly Islands. The new boat is...
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Coxswain Anthony Jordan After His Ii Hour Service. - View image in PDF
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St Cybi (Civil Service No.9) is one of 20 Barnett class boats built.
At 52ft they were the largest RNLI lifeboats at the time and were fine seaboats. All were built with open cockpit steering position but St Cybi was later... - View image in PDF
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Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—While the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was at sea on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1938, for her monthly exercise, she received a signal from the coastguard that a yacht was in a dangerous position...
Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.
THE challenge shield and individual prizes won by Greater London schools in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year were presented by Major- General the Right Hon. J. E....
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