CLACTON.—On the morning of the 4th January, while a whole gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, the coxswain of the Life-boat saw a vessel stranded on the Baxey Sand. The crew of the Lifeboat Albert Edward were summoned and the boat put...
26th January. A steamer stranded on the Goodwin Sands, but got off unaided.—Rewards, £7 16s. 6d..
Alan chips in Kind-hearted chip shop owner Alan Smith threw a lifeline to Kessock lifeboat in October when he donated an entire day's takings from his branch of Harry Ramsden's in Inverness. Alan hasn't forgotten that he owes...
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During a heavy S.W. gale on the 25th June the Coast- guard reported by telephone that a vessel was burning flares for assistance off East Lane Point. The No. 1 Life- boat Ann Fawcett proceeded to Shingle Street and found the schooner...
WICKLOW, IRELAND.—A branch of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has been recently founded at Wicklow, and a life-boat on Mr. BEECHING'S prize model modified in correspondence with the boats on the Institution's plan has been...
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A look behind the scenes at RNLI (Sales), the company which raises funds for the lifeboat service, and is also responsible for perhaps the most visible of the RNLI's images - its gifts and souvenirsWeall knowabout RNLI (Sales) don't...
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Soon after dark on the 28th December, signal lights and rockets were seen in the direction of the West Scroby Sands, by the beachmen at Caister, on the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat was at once launched, and, proceeding to the sands,...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 12.42 in the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1948, the Gorleston coastguard reported that the Dutch motor vessel Evertsen, which was off the harbour, had signalled for a doctor. Six...