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— During moderate weather on the 20th February a telephone message was received stating that a steamer had stranded at the entrance to the harbour. The No. 1 Life- boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched and proceeded down the river under oars....

On the 12th October a vessel was reported to have ran on the Eamon roots.

The crew of the Life-boat Norbury were at once summoned, and at 6 A.M. the boat was on her way to the vessel, which was found to be the Norwegian...

Launches 70. Lives rescued 49.

JULY 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire about five miles south-west of Shoreham. A fresh westerly wind was...

THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant Life-boat Crew of the little village of Rye Harbour, sweeping away practically the whole adult...

Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.30 on the night of the 6th of September, 1955, the police rang up to say that a woman had reported that the motor launch Noddy, which had been out all day with her son and three friends on board, had not returned....

Falmouth, Cornwall. On the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1959, the police at Falmouth informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had lost her rudder and had struck a rock near Rosemullion Point. The life-boat Crawford and Constance...

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Ob«Me.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...