BEFORE the invasion of the Romans, York was one of the chief towns of the Brigantes, the most powerful of the British Tribes. By them it was known as Yure- Wic, and even at that time was a place of importance. The parent city is sup- posed...
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PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Richard, of Buncorn, coal laden, from Whitehaven for Killough, with a crew of three men, was seen running for the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea on the morning of the 16th October....
At 4.30 A.M. on the 25th April the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched to the assistance of a vessel apparently on the Cross Sand. On the arrival of the boat they found the vessel was the steamer North Gwalia, of London, laden -with...
At about 9 P.M. on the 14th January the Coxswain, of the Life-boat Arthur B.
Dawes discovered that a vessel was ashore on the rocks of Boulmer South Steel. The night was very dark, with a thick atmosphere. The boat was...
WHEN Rear-Admiral F. C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, and the other American delegates attended the second International Life-boat Conference, which was held in Paris last June, they visited Life-boat Stations in...
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Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 7.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore a mile west of Rue Point, and a few minutes later she was reported to be blowing S.O.S. on her whistle. The motor...
Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to: Mr. CHARLES E. TODD, on his retirement after ten years as honorary secretary of the Tynemouth...
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On the evening of the 16th March information was received that the motor fishing boat Leander, with two men on board, was overdue. A squally W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea and rain squalls. Some time later it was re- ported that...
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. -— On the afternoon of the 2nd September the coxswain, who knew that the motor launch which attends on the residents of Steep Holm Island was away at the island, kept a look out for her, as a fresh S.S.E. breeze...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 11.5 on the night of the 1st of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that flares had been seen seven miles to the south- ward, and at 11.50 the life-boatMichael Stephens put out in a calm sea and light breeze....