BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PETERHEAD DECEMBER 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 3.50 in the morning the coastguard reported to the motor-mechanic of the life-boat signals of distress from a vessel in the direction of Buchan Ness. The...
SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
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Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
0 Rage of Sand: The Story of the Men who Built their Own Seaside Town (Ernest Benn, £2.25) is by Gabriel Harrison, a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and is a very readable account of the growth of St.
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With the publication of Derek Wood and Derek Dempster's revised book, The Narrow Margin (Arrow Books, 25s.), on which the screenplay of the epic film, The Battle of Britain, is based, some of those who were actively engaged may well...
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BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment at Balcary Point, in Auchencairn Bay, on the coast of Kirkcudbright, which is considered to be an excellent position whence a Life- boat can...
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FlSHGUARD, SOUTH WALES. On the 22nd March, at about 7.30 A.M., a signal of distress was shown from a vessel at anchor in the bay, where she had been riding with others during the night. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.N.E., at...
THE United States Government have recently issued their report of their Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1888. From it we learn that at the close of the fiscal year in question there were 222 life-saving stations, 170...
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Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...
IN the statement of the income and expenditure of the Institution for the year ending 31st March, 1854, it will be seen that £1,831 has been expended on life-boats, and on objects immed- iately connected with them; and £182 on...
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