Mr. S. Macdonald, F.R.I.N.A., M.I.E.S.S., S.N.A.M.E., has been appointed Chief Staff Officer (Technical) of the R.N.L.I. Mr. Macdonald is married and is aged 50.
He was educated at Greenock and Edinburgh Academies and...
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ABERSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at Abersoch, near Pwll- heli. A large number of vessels are often at anchor in St. Tudwell's Roads off that place, which are liable to accident or...
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SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
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TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—At 2 A.M. on the 30th September signals of distress were observed in Dnndrum Bay, about a mile S.S.W. of the Craigalea Bocks. The wind was blowing from the S., the weather was thick and hazy, and there was a heavy ground...
Among the 455 people aboard the passenger steamer Royal Charter which went aground off the Anglesey coast on 25th October, 1859, were members of the family of R. M. Ballantyne, the famous writer of children's books. Ballantyne was deeply...
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Southcnd-on-Sea, Essex. — On the evening of the 21st August a message was received from the pier head that a barge was in a dangerous position west of the pier. She was the Florence Myall, of Rochester, with a crew of two, and her sails had...
On the 7th December signals of distress were ob- served on a vessel near the Little Orme's Head. The Sisters' Memorial life-boat was launched, and found the vessel at anchor, with her mast carried away. She proved to be the flat...
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