APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
BY JAMES GLAISHER, ESQ., F.R.S.
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND proposed in 1859 to the President of the British Meteorological Society, THOMAS SOPWITH, Esq., M.A.,F.R.S., the establishment of Meteorological...
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• A new volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series is always welcome and in The Life-boats of Cardigan Bay and Anglesey (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 32s.) Mr. Henry Parry has maintained the traditions of accuracy and thorough- ness of the...
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THE object of this Institution, as declared in its title, is to afford assistance to every shipwrecked person around the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The chief means by which it hopes to carry this object into effect are—...
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RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—About 1 A.M. on the 3rd January, the barque Clifton, of Liverpool, was wrecked on Rhosneigir rocks. It being then moderately smooth, the crew remained by the ship in the hope of floating her off; but about 1 P.M., in...
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LIFE-BOATMEN are well known to be long-lived men; moreover, they continue to go out on service up to a great age.
But even for Life-boatmen we think it must be a record that two should have celebrated their diamond...
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DURING May, June, July, August, and September, 1921, the following awaids were made to Coxswains and Life-boat men :— To THOMAS HENRY NICHOLAS, on his retire- ment, after ten years' .service as Coxswain of the Sennen Cove Life-boat, and,...
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LIFE-BOATMAN CARRIES TWO BOYS ASHORE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.25 on the night of the 4th June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were marooned on a marker buoy off Hall Road, Crosby. At 10.40 the...
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 8.42 a.m.
on ist July, 1966 a message was received that the m.v. Pantarali, lying off the Dudgeon lightvessel, had a sick crew member on board who required medical attention. An R.A.F. helicopter...