THE exhibition of life-boat photographs which has already been shown in London, Edinburgh and Birmingham has, during the latter part of the year, been on a tour of the North-East of England, and has been shown at York, Bradford, Sunderland...
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At 12.30 A.M. on the 7th November the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Aid, proceeded to the Kentish Knock Sand, the master of a fishingsmack having reported that there was a vessel ashore there. The wind was blowing moderately...
TRAWLER BREAKS FROM MOORINGS IN STRONG GALE Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 5th February, 1963, Ilfracombe radio station informed the honorary secretary that the principal keeper of the Tuskar Rock lighthouse...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT MOELFRE JANUARY 28TH - 29TH. - HOLYHEAD, AND MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO. CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 7.30 in the evening of the 29th of January, 1940, a message came to the Moelfre life-boat station...
On the 4th January, 1863, the ketch Neuha, of Berwick-upon-Tvveed, having got on shore on the Abertay Bank in a gale fromE.S.E., with foggy weather, the Mary Hartley life- boat, stationed at Broughty Ferry, pro- ceeded to her assistance....
On the 3rd December, the Anna Maria life-boat on this station put off, during a strong gale, and rescued 2 men from the rigging of the schooner Phoebe, of Goole, which was stranded about a mile north of Winterton.
The...
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Elizabeth Davy, ofGoole, was observed in a dismasted state, running for the shore in tow of the Polperro, diving boat. She had a very narrow escape of striking the rocks east of Looe Island. The life-boat...
CEMAES, ANGLESEA. — The Life-boat was launched at 11.15 A.M., on the 13th Maroh,a steamer having been seen to run on the Platters Books in Skerries Sound. She ultimately foundered near the Victoria buoy, and her crew of six men haying taken...
BARMOUTH.—A small pleasure yacht, the Petrel, left Barmouth on the morning of the 27th July, with five gentlemen, lady, and two boatmen on board, for Aberystwyth, which was reached about 3.30 P.M., after a rough passage, however, part of the...
WITHERNSEA.—A vessel having been reported ashore about a mile S. of Withernsea, the Life-boat Admiral Horn was launched at about 1.10 A.M. on the 17th November, in a heavy sea, the wind blowing half a gale from the S.E., and saved the crew...