THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
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Three walkers three lifeboatsThe difficulties of working close inshore in surf were vividly illustrated when Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat, her ' Y' boat and the Eastbourne D class were all involved in a service to save three...
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.
of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...
Margate, Kent.—At 7.50 on the even- ing of the 16th of July, 1955, the coast- guard reported that a motor launch from H.M.S. Ocean, an aircraft carrier at anchor off Margate, was in diffi- culties in dense fog near the Nayland Rocks about a...
WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued' that on the 30th of June, 1886, there were 211 stations, 165 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the La,kes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...
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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...
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 1st December, at 4 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded, during a strong E.S.E. wind and heavy sea, to the aid of a vessel which was signalling for assistance. She proved to be the barque Onward...
Terry Simmons, centre, with his sons Scott, left, and Stephen, who has recently joined the crew. Photo: Eastern Daily Press. - View image in PDF
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ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE. — While a moderate gale was blowing from the E. accompanied by a rough sea, thick weather and rain, on the 2nd January, the s.s. Knud, of Copenhagen, bound from Ghent for Middlesbrough, in ballast, stranded...