CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 2nd February, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the direction of the Barber Sand. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend promptly proceeded to the Sand and found the smack Peace, of Lowestoft...
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SHORTLY after the commencement of the war, the finely-equipped Red Cross hospital ship Rohilla, belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Co., whilst proceeding on an errand of mercy to France, went ashore at Saltwick Nab, about a mile...
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Rescue of the crew of the s.s. Sprightly, of Newcastle, by the Danish Life-saving Service last June.. - View image in PDF
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Launches 103. Lives rescued 130.
November Meeting.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two...
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Award of the Silver Medal.
DURING the twelve days from the 21st January to the 1st February. 1937 the worst gales within living memory blew at Aberdeen, and the south break- water of the harbour was washed...
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Fig 3: (right) Building starts of the first 47ft steel fast slipway lifeboat prototype. - View image in PDF
The gunwale is laid down on a deck jig and the five watertight bulkheads and transom erected.. - View image in PDF
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BEFOHK the middle of October the Institution's life-boats had already rescued more lives this year than they rescued in the whole of 1956, although 19,56 was the busiest year the service had ever known in time of peace.
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Mrs J. Stancer, chairman of the Warwick ladies' lifeboat guild, holding the new silver lifeboat trophy described on this page. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Heart of England Newspapers Ltd.. - View image in PDF
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NOVEMBER 18TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.10 in the afternoon a steamer had been seen to go ashore on the Goodwin Sands. A moderate north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil Service No. 2) was...
The screw flat Victoria, of Liverpool, bound from Pen- maenmawr to Birkenhead with a cargo of macadam, became unmanageable in the Rock Channel on the 12th March, in consequence of a mishap to the steering gear and the bursting of the...