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Flooding tide A PARTY of four wildfowlers, caravanning at Burnfoot on the Nith Estuary, on the north side of the Solway Firth, set off shooting at about 0730 on Monday January 19. It was about two hours after low water. Two of the party set...
A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey
ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
Category: Services
A Silver Medal Service at Cloughey
ON 9th May, 1939, the s.s. Arantzazu- Mendi, of Bilbao, went aground on Butter Paddy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party on board on 17th June. A strong S.S.W. wind was...
Category: Services
Our President's New Office. Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets
By George F. Shee, M.A., ALL who are connected in any way with the Life-boat Service will have read with special pleasure the announcement which was made on 14th February, that the King had decided to make a personal link between the...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (1)
Royal National Life-Boat Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
FOUNDED IN 1824.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For tile Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED in 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...
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Special Gifts
From Mid-Atlantic.
WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...
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Spurt
Moelfre, Anglesey.—6th December. At 6.20 P.M. a message was received from Point Lynas that the 3,000-ton Norwegian steamer Spurt was in distress in the Moelfre roads. A whole N. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the weather was...
Pride of Erin
Islay, Hebrides.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 2nd of April, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard passed on by telephone a message that the motor fishing vessel Pride of Erin, of Belfast, was ashore in West Loch Tarbert.
She was...
Willowbrook
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