THE Station at Shoreham, Sussex, which was established in 1865, was closed in 1924, owing to the silting up of the harbour. Up to that date its Life-boats had rescued forty lives.
Since 1924 there has been a great im-...
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On the 25th February the s.s. Eilandi, of London, while sheltering from a storm behind the south pier, and trying to repair her damaged steering gear, was driven across the harbour mouth and stranded on the Black Midden...
THE crew of the Walmer life-boat went to London on Thursday, 27th of November, to receive the medals awarded to them by the French life-boat society, La societe centrale de sauvetage des naufrages for the rescue on the 13th of January, 1952,...
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A VELLUM to mark the 150th anniver- sary of the establishment of a life-boat station at Sunderland was presented on the 6th of October, 1954, by Mr.
Arthur G. Everett, a member of the Committee of Management. The vellum was...
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FOUR other naming ceremonies were held in England, in June and July, 1950, at Seaham, Clovelly, Hastings, and Teesmouth.
Seaham The new Seaham life-boat lias been built out of a legacy from the late Miss Elizabeth Elmy, of...
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Weymouth, Dorset.—At about 4.20 A.M. on the 4th August, 1938, Wyke coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties north of Weymouth Pier and was burning red flares. She was the auxiliary yacht Gisele Aimee, of St. Malo, bound, with a...
THE Bishop of St. David's, the Right Reverend John Richards, gave an address from the bandstand at Aberyst- wyth on the 9th May, 1962, in which he said: "No organisation in the whole of our history has revealed more truly the spirit...
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Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
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