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Cristo
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY HOLED COASTER New Brighton, Cheshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of Friday the 26th of July, 1963, the Formby coastguard reported that the coaster Cristo of Liverpool was aground near C.I5 buoy but was in no...
Trapu
Walmer, Kent.—At 2.11 on the after- noon of the 15th of July, 1955, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a steamer had reported that the tug Trapu, of Dunkirk, had gone aground on the Goodwin Sands about half a mile south-by-east of the West...
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Abersoch - West Division Picturesque Abersoch, on the tip of the Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales, boasts two sandy beaches and is a popular area for powerboat and yachting...
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Auguste Schulte
North-west England Peel, Isle of Man. At 9.25 p.m. on 2 ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Auguste Schulte of Hamburg had on board a sick man who might require medical attention. The life...
Sunshine, of Padstow
on the 10th October, this life-boat was launched and proceeded to the wreck of the schooner Sunshine, of Padstow, on the Newcome Sand, the wind blowing a fresh gale from the S.W. at the time. On arrival at the vessel it was found that she...
Book Corner
more than its members generally realise, upon seamen and the ships they manned. Take away the common sailor and the craft in which, down the centuries, he has carried goods through tempest and fog, past innumerable natural and man-made...
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Life-Boatman's Painting
SECOND MECHANIC of the Howth life-boat, George McConkey, who has never received any tuition as an artist, has painted a remarkable picture in oils of the rescue, in which he took part and for which he was subsequently awarded a medal service...
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The S.S. Empire Facility, of London
JANUARY 21ST. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel half a mile to the north-west had fired a rocket and hoisted a signal, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 7...
A Barque
On the morning of the 30th March was reported that a barque was ashore on Cymeran Beach, with all hands in the fore rigging, the vessel having sunk, and her mainmast having been carried away during a heavy S.S.W.
gale. The...