DECEMBER 19TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. Later a body was washed ashore. A letter of thanks was received from Air Commodore of the R.A.F....
Aerokits Ltd have recently introduced into their model range a kit for the 48' 6" Solent class lifeboat, the prototype of which (shown above) is being given to Southwold Lifeboat Museum.
A royalty will come to the...
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LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
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LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway and of side or bilgeways attached to the keelway, and...
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Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 7.5 on the night of the 25th of January, 1951, the police sent a message that a fishing boat was reported to have made flares off the Tolsta Head. At 7.30 the life-boat William and Harriet was launched in...
AUGUST 5TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At ten o’clock at night the resident of a bungalow on the cliffs near Benllech reported to the honorary secretary of the life-boat station that signals were being made by torch from a launch...
During squally weather, on the 28th March, 1872, the barque Exe, of Exeter, went on the New- come Sand in a very dangerous position.
The Kessingland No. 1 Life-boat, the Bolton, was promptly launched to her as- sistance ;...
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
JUNE 12TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. An aeroplane had been seen falling into the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..