LOWESTOFT.—On the 14th January the Life-boat Lastitia proceeded under sailto the assistance of the three-masted schooner George Smeed, of Rochester, which vessel, while on a voyage from Shields to Rochester, was observed to lose her foremast...
DONNA NOOK.—On the 20th February, at 9 A.M., the schooner Helene, of Rye, bound from that port to Hull, was wrecked during a gale at N.E. off Grainthorpe Haven. On the boatmen perceiving the Helene was aground and flying a signal of distress...
PLYMOUTH.—The barquentine Kate, of Greenock, laden with logwood from Laguna de Terminios to Plymouth for orders, parted her cables during a strong W. gale and a high sea on the morning of the 23rd March, and went ashore on the rocks in...
STAITHES.—A sudden gale of wind from E.S.E. arose on the morning of the 14th March, 1896, and a heavy sea sprung up, endangering the safety of the fishingcobles, which had proceeded to sea at daybreak. The Life-boat Jonathan Stott put off at...
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 2nd April the Life-boat Co-Operator No. 2 was called out in squally weather to the assistance of the barque Aberlemno, of Swansea, coal laden from Barry, which had stranded on a point called Egg Bock, W. of Combmartin, in...
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
THE annual award of a case of rum to the life-boat crew which has carried out the longest winter service has been made by the Sugar Manufacturers' Association (of Jamaica) Limited to the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, lifeboat, for a...
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The Mumbles, Glamorganshire-At 6.40 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down and was drifting out to sea on the ebb tide. At 6.47 the IRB launched in a gentle easterly...
Brigg, South Humberside, ladies' guild ran a stall at the town's annual charity market on July 18, raising £135. The guild also won the runner-up prize for the best dressed stall holders—and the chairman and honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
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RNLI director, Rear Admiral W. J. Graham (I), with Mr Roger Smith, deputy chairman of Tricentrol PLC after the official handing over by the oil company of their gift of a new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat for use in the relief fleet. The... - View image in PDF
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