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AUGUST 2 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 10.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht going north might need help. A strong southsouth- east wind was blowing and there was a heavy swell. At 10.55 the...

MAY 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.40 in the morning the naval base telephoned, through the coastguard, that a heavy explosion had occurred where the examination vessel Thistle had last been seen, and the motor life-boat...

THE first life-boat of the Oakley class was named J. G. Graves of Sheffield at a ceremony at the Scarborough lifeboathouse on the 11th of June, 1959.

The life-boat was a gift of the J. G. Graves Charitable Trust, and Mrs....

During the same fierce gale, on 9th July, the Life-boat at Totland Bay was called out. Shortly after midnight the Brooke Station reported that its Boat was being launched, and at 1.35 another message was received that a vessel three or four...

Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, fourteen local fishing cobles put out from Filey. The wind got up suddenly, and at 7.15 a whole S. gale was blowing, with arough sea and torrential rain....

Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—28th February.

At 11.19 A.M. the coastguard reported that the s.s. Miguel, of Bilbao, was in difficulties with her steeringchain broken, about twelve miles E.N.E. of West Hartlepool. A...