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Volume L Number 497 Lifeboat Services.
Fraserhurgh: When a job needs doing, by Georgette Purches.
42 48 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOI.I.
Director and...
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Ceremonies
Eastbourne- Mersey Royal Thames Monday 6 September 1993 dawned fair over the Sovereign Harbour where Eastbourne's new Mersey class was to be named and dedicated by HRH Princess Michael of Kent.
The Princess was greeted...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th January, 1888.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
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Blackmail
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—-It was reported that a vessel was ashore and showing signals of distress, on the north side of Lune at midnight on the 28th October, during a strong N.W. breeze. 'The Child of Hale Life-boat promptly went to her...
Eliza Emma
The brig Eliza Emma, of Shoreham.
while entering Hartlepool, at about 7 P.M., on the 14th February, during a moderateS.S.E. gale, accompanied by a very heavy sea, ran ashore on the Beacon Eocks, owing to the thickness of...
Margaret and Jane and Presilla
The No. 2 Life-boat, John Fielden, was launched at 8 A.M. on the 22nd January, in an E.S.E. gale and heavy sea, to the as- sistance of the fishing-boats Margaret and Jane and Priscilla, of Filey, and rescued the crews of eight men. The boats...
A Small Boat
At 3.45 P.M., on the 25th April, the Coastguard reported that a small boat had capsized off Whitmore Bay, and two men were clinging to her. The Life-boat, John Wesley, was smartly launched, and, in tow of a tug, pro- ceeded to the capsized...
A Boat Belonging to Pet
During tine cold weather on the 19th April the | Coxswain, John Swan, observed a man in a small boat trying to reach a j smack which was outside the harbour.
After several attempts one of the oars broke and the boat began...
St. Agnes No. 7.
REFLOATING A TRAWLER Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.30 in the evening of the 12th of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel was aground off the north end of the promenade, but was not making . signals of distress. A light...
Westkust (1)
Scarborough, Flamborough, and Brid- lington, Yorkshire.—On the 9th of December, 1951, the Scarborough life- boat rescued the crew of ten of the Dutch motor vessel Westkust, and the Scarborough bowman lost his life.— Rewards, to FRANK DALTON,...