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Then: I lived in Hastings as a small girl in the 1950s, and remember the sound of the maroon followed by the footsteps of Coxswain...
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Presentation of Prizes in the London District.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the llth March, the Mayor of Westminster (Major V. B. Rogers, D.S.O., M.C.) presided at the Presentation of the Prizes won in the Life-boat...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1956, H.M. S.M.L. A 322 was observed to be aground on a rock outside Mallaig harbour. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put out at four o'clock with the second coxswain...
Expenditure.
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32,778 19 11 100 12 5 13,513 11 9 406 1 6 10,707 17 3,321 13 459 17 245 10 61,534 3 8 New Life-boats for the following stations :—On...
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DUNGENESS (LTDD).—The Life-boat B.A.O.S. was launched at 1.40 A.M., on the llth April, while a moderate gale was blowing from W., accompanied by a rough sea, and proceeded to the assistance of the barque Oapella, of Bremen, which, while...
At 9.50 A.M. on the 30th November a message was received from the Haisborough Lightvessel stat- ing that a steamer was ashore on the sands. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing at the time and the No. 2 Life- boat Hearts of Oak was promptly ...
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Filey, Yorkshire. At 9.30 on the even- ing of the 19th August, 1961, the coast- guard requested the honorary secretary to launch the life-boat to illuminate the cliff base where four people had been cut off by the tide. At 10.3 the maroons...
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 6.36 A.M.
on the 2nd September, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head.
The weather was...
.—-The Schooner Sidney Smith, of Portmadoc, whilst bound from Spain to Bristol with a cargo of iron ore, stranded at the mouth of Bantham Harbour, in foggy weather, early in the morning of the 25th March. Information of the disaster was...