On the 24th Jan- uary, during a storm from the S.W., the schooner Edward Stonard, of Lancaster, lost her main-boom, fore-gaff, and all sails except mainsail (which was split), and the master was obliged to run her ashore to the west- ward of...
On the 9th May, the schooner Speed, of Wexford, was observed anchored close to the rocks off this place, during a strong gale of wind and heavy sea.
The captain, fearing that his vessel would drive on the rocks, hoisted...
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This raggedy looking band of players are the Syzewell Gap Mummers who perform their play in pubs in the Aldeburgh area each year over Christmas to raise money for the lifeboat service. In 1986 they collected £90 in just two nights from... - View image in PDF
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THE only two living survivors ofthe Aldeburgh life-boat disaster in 1899 were guests of honour at a dinner given by Ipswich supporters of the Institution to the present crew of the Aldeburgh life-boat, and their wives, at Ipswich on the...
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Coxswain/Mechanic John E. Bryan, of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami. He was appointed in May, 1967, having previously been a full time mechanic of the former conventional life-boat. Since April, 1961, when he...
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GUERNSEY Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, Secretary of the Institution, presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of a life-boat station at Guernsey, to Sir Thomas Elmhirst, Lieutenant-Governor and...
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