About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...
New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...
AT 2.15 ih the morning of 27th January a message was received at the Penlee life-boat station from the coast- guard that a ship appeared to be on fire near Gear Rock in Mounts Bay.
Twenty minutes later the motor life- boat...
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Chairman of the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat Station THERE has been a life-boat station at Berwick-on-Tweed for 118 years, and for the last thirty-four of those years the coxswain has been a Lough. A Lough is coxswain today, four of the...
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DECEMBER 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 5.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported distress signals east-south-east of Walton. The night was very dark, with rain. A strong east-south-east wind was blowing and the sea was very rough...
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment at this new and rising watering-place on the coast of Essex— the local residents being very desirous to AND NEW LIFE-BOATS.
be...
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IN our last number we considered the question as to the application of steam- power to Life-boats, and pointed out what we considered the insuperable difficulties in the way of its use. At the same time, however, who indicated that greater...
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Jan.3.—Three men of Budleigh Salterton,Devon- shire, saved 2 Coastguardmen, whose boat, while they were crossing the river Otter on duty, had been carried down the river by the current and wrecked against the rocks at Otter Point, during a...
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THE management and the practical working of a great national service like that of the Life-boat demand the constant attention of the technical officers of the Institution ; and these, under the direction of the Chief Inspector of Life-boats,...
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The extent of the means for saving life at present is comprised in the following meagre statement, which we copy from the Northumberland Report*:— " In Scotland, with a seaboard of 1,500 miles, there are eight life-boats: at...
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