50 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of November 1918 The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition Early this year the late Duke of Northumberland, the then President of the Institution, placed at its disposal the sum of £100, to...
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SEAHAM, DURHAM.—The seafaring popu-ation of this place having expressed a de- sire to have a life-boat, not only for the sake of assisting the crows of distressed vessels, but also that they might bo on- ! abled to help pilot and...
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GOURDON, SCOTLAND.—On the 5th Nov.
last the new Life-boat recently provided for this station was publicly inaugurated with due pomp and ceremony. The village was gaily decorated for the occasion, streamers of flags...
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SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...
CLACTON-ON-SBA, ESSEX.—A severe north-westerly gale was experienced off Clacton on the morning of the 15th March accompanied by a rough sea.
About 8.15 A.M. a vessel was seen drifting towards the Gunfleet...
The steam trawler Philorth, of Dundee, left Dundee Harbour at 1.30 A.M. on the 18th March, bound for the fishing grounds, and at 3.45 she was seen from Arbroath Harbour to run on to the rocks about one mile to the eastward, and make signals...
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 10.5 on the night of the 6th of August, 1952, distress signals were seen. At the same time a telephone message was received by the honorary secretary from a fishing party that they had tried unsuccessfully...
The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 5.30 A.M. on the 14th February,- 1939, the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore on the end of Spurn Point. The coxswain immediately went to the beach, where he saw the steam trawler Hausa, of...
YACHT TOWED OFF ROCKS IN GALE Angle, Pembrokeshire. At 12.47 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in distress close inshore off West Dale Point. There was a...
INSHORE RESCUE BOAT ON SERVICE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 4.3 on the afternoon of Sunday the 8th September, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed by the coastguard that a man was being swept out to sea at Watergate Bay twenty two and a half...