JANUARY 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.25 P.M. a message was received from the naval authorities that a steamer had gone aground in Weymouth Bay. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 10.5 P.M. the motor...
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About ten o'clock on the night of the 21st October, during foul weather and in a thick fog, analarm was given that a vessel was in dis- tress off Polurrian Cove, about a mile and a half from the life-boat station. The Daniel J. Draper...
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STEAMER PASSENGER SPOTS FLARES Rhyl, Flintshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passenger on board the steamer St. Tudno of Liverpool had reported seeing red flares six to...
MAKING WAVES IN DUNBAR
In January, a group of young surfers from the Wave Project – an organisation that helps young people reduce anxiety and increase confidence through its award-winning surf courses – paid a visit to...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight 10th February. A motor barge had been flying a signal, but did not want any help.—Rewards, £18 Us. Qd..
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
A flare had been reported and a foreign fishing boat was found, but she did not need help. - Rewards, £10..
SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...
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photographs by courtesy of Peter Hadfield Thousands of Tablers came to Newhaven to be present at the naming of the 44' Waveney lifeboat Louis Marchesi of Round Table. They brought their families with them and the local Table, acting as... - View image in PDF
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