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During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February, the schooner Proba, of Bideford, whilst bound from Charlestown to London with a cargo of china clay stranded on the Brake Sands. Information of the casualty reached North Deal at 9.45 A.M.,...

The James Michael Bower Endowment Fund was established in 1955 by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company as a memorial to James Michael Bower, late third officer of the s.s. Stratheden, who lost his life in a disaster. Awards...

Mr. Rowland Berkeley.

WE deeply regret to announce the sudden death on 14th October, after an operation, of Mr. Rowland Berkeley, who was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Institution at the beginning of 1923. Mr. Berkeley...

WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...

AT the opening, on the 29th July last, of the new Asylum at Snaresbrook for Merchant Seamen's Orphans, EARL RUSSELL, K.G., H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made some appropriate remarks on the occasion.

STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed or Named. No. ENGLAND. Ft. In. Ft. in. NORTHUMBERLAND BKRWICK-OX-TWKED - - - 33 - 8 - 10 1864 1 HOLY ISLASD — No. 1 - — — 34 - 8 ...

NOVEMBER MEETING WALMER, KENT. Shortly after 6 in the evening of the 17th August, 1941, a British Beaufort bomber crashed into the sea between Kingsdown and Walmer, some 400 yards off shore. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea....