Si. ANDREW'S, N.B. —- The Life-boat placed on this station some years since by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION had done good service from time to time, it having saved 22 lives from different ship- wrecks ; but last year it was found...
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OCTOBER 18TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 12.30 in the afternoon the harbour master received a wireless message from the motor ship Eagerfgelh, of Oslo, that she was off the harbour, had trouble with her engine, and needed a pilot to...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—Oh the 26th November, 1938, the motor life-boat rescued the crews, six in number, of the three barges T.F.C., Gknmore and Lord Roberts.—-Rewards: Bronze second service clasp, vellums, and money awards amounting to...
REGISTER OF SHIPWRECKS ON THE COASTS AND IN THE SEAS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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The Royal Berkshire life-boat at Aberdovey brought safely into harbour the stranded schooner Jane Sophia, of Aberyst- with,' and her crew of 5 men, which vessel had gone ashore on the South Bank.
Comedian Norman Wisdom presents a cheque for £27,500 - the proceeds of the 1994 Portrush Raft Race - to Kelly Allen, the first female crew member of Portrush lifeboat. The Mayor of Coleraine, David McClarty is also pictured, right..<... - View image in PDF
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(Photo left) Vic Choules (right) hands over the D class lifeboat to Mr Anthony Oliver (left) head of the RNLI's fund raising. - View image in PDF
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THE Institution has awarded an in- scribed wrist-watch and a framed letter of thanks to twelve-year-old Michael Dornom, of Salcombe, Devon, who saved the life of a seaman in a south- westerly gale on the 17th of September, 1950. The seaman...
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RAMSGATE.—Captain BRAINE, the harbour- master of Ramsgate, in reporting the noble service rendered by the Ramsgate Life-boat on the 6th January, on the occasion of the wreck of the ship Indian Chief, on the Long Sands, states that the vessel...
PLYMOUTH, JULY 19. A brilliant day with the sun beating down on a cluster of white marquees in West Hoe Park, close by the sea; an atmosphere of cheerful expectancy; flags flying; the Royal Marine Band breaking into the gaiety of...
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