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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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H.M. Torpedo Destroyer Recruit
SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.—During a dense fog on the 27th of May H.M.
Torpedo Destroyer Recruit struck the rocks, about half a mile N. of Cape Cornwall, at 4 o'clock in the morning. The Coxswain, hearing distress signals,...
The John and Edmund
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About 10 P.M. on the 7th December the coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat observed a signal light being burned from a vessel in the bay, apparently making for West Hartlepool. The ship suddenly altered her course, and ran...
Topdal and the S.S. Kittiwake
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. — On the evening of the 6th October the Coxswain of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 5 received a telegram from Whitehaven warning him to watch for a barque coming up the Solway Firth. A strong gale was blowing from S.W....
A Steamer
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE. The No.
'2 Life-boat, Marianne Atherstone, performed an excellent service on the 26th March, resulting in the saving of four lives. About 5 o'clock a steamer was seen approaching the harbour,...
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BODY SEEN At 10.5 a.m. on i3th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor patrol vessel Annabel had reported seeing a body in Dunnet Bay. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 10...
Photo Fishguard - Trent Class Blue Peter VII
Fishguard's new Trent class lifeboat makes her way to sea after the ceremony with the three 'Blue Peter' presenters on the foredeck. Blue Peter VII is the first all-weather lifeboat to be funded by a 'Blue Peter' appeal... - View image in PDF
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Jump from pier SOUTHEND STATION MECHANIC, Robert Chalk, was walking with two friends, Frederick Robinson (ILB crew) and Bernard Barton, near the lifeboathouse on Southend Pier at 0900 on Monday, November 25, 1974, when, looking into the sea...
A Dinghy
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1954, the police reported that a dinghy, with two children on board, was adrift off the entrance to Beaulieu River.
At 7.28 the life-boat The Lord...