Two saved in harbour drama Faced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
AN immense work is being accomplished in these days in the way of prevention against loss of life, both by sea and by land; but we may still hope for extensive improvements as experience and science arm our great philanthropic societies with...
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DECEMBER 28TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashed at night, but no trace of her could be found. - Rewards, Blackpool, £11 15s. ; Lytham-St. Anne’s, £14 Is....
DECEMBER 28TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashed at night, but no trace of her could be found. - Rewards, Blackpool, £11 15s. ; Lytham-St. Anne’s, £14 Is....
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Coxswain Stephen Clayson, who died in July, 1937, at the age of eighty-four, had a distinguished career. He was bowman of the Margate life-boat for over seven years and coxswain for over twenty years. During that time the life-boats rescued...
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One wet and windy Sunday in May a group of Brownies took part in a beach clean at Kingsdown Beach. The £30 they earned in sponsorship was given to the lifeboats. photograph by courtesy of Basil M. Kidd. - View image in PDF
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Galway Bay - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a North Aran lighthouse- keeper informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two occupants had been sighted about one hundred and fifty yards off the island on which the lighthouse...
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At two o'clock on the morning of the 13th of September, 1959, the radio station at Malin Head informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was in distress sixteen miles eact of Tory Island. At 2.30...
Coxswain Neil Stewart, of Wick, Caithness-shire, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing 31 men from a motor barge and a tug which had gone on the rocks in a gale. In the first glimmer of daylight the coxswain took...
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