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Vera
Shortly after 8 P.M. on the 15th October distress signals were observed from the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel, indicating that a vessel was ashore and required assist- ance. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were...
The Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Institution was held in London on April 30th., and the principal speaker was Sir Arthur Salter, K.C.B., M,P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping. For the first time since J914, when the custom was...
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Rosa Alba
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—In response to signals from the Cork Light-ship the Life-boat Aldeburgh was launched at 6.18 P.M. on the 22nd March, in a strong N.N.W. wind and heavy sea. Shortly after she had left, a telephone message arrived reporting...
Grassholm
In response to signals, the Life-boat, Henry Dundas, was launched at 1.15 A.M. on the 21st August. There was a dense fog at the time and after searching to the west- ward she proceeded to the Northern Rooks where she found the steam trawler...
Mabel
The paddle steamer Mabel, of Newcastle, whilst bound from North Shields to Cork in ballast, stranded on the Annat Bank off Montrose on the morning of the 24th February. There was a strong S.S.E.
breeze at the time with a...
Three Brothers, of Sunderland
DECEMBER 29TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.
About three in the afternoon a motor fishing coble was seen to be in distress to the southeast of Seaham, and at 3.43 the motor life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen was launched, in a moderate...
Diligent
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 10th of November, 1955, the life-boat coxswain reported that he had heard a wireless message from the fishing boat Diligent, of Buckie, that she had gone ashore near Duncansby Head. At...
Diana III, of Appledore
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 6.46 in the evening the Bude coastguard reported that a boat, a mile off Bude breakwater, needed help. A strong west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At seven o’clock...
Lord Gough, of Whitby
On the 15th March, during a heavy gale from N.N.W., the brig Lord Gough, of Whitby, riding with several other vessels in Fishguard Bay, was considered to be in danger; and the crew, wishing to leave the vessel or run her for the beach, a...
Contents
Contents Volume XLIV Number 455 Notes of the Quarter, by The Editor Henry Blogg Centenary Exhibition Lifeboat Services International Boat Show ...
Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman of the Institution 111 112 113 119...
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