OF all the calamities to which the human race is liable, unless it be that of unceasing pain, there is perhaps none which we each of us dread so much in our own persons, or sympathize with so greatly when beheld in others, as loss of sight....
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Three saved from swamped dinghy Members of the Portsmouth lifeboat crew have also received framed letters of thanks from the Chairman of the RNL1 for their sen-ices during an earlier rescue. The helmsman for this service was Steve Alexander...
JANUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a minesweeper aground three to four miles off Clacton, but in no immediate danger. At 3.30 the motor lifeboat Edward Z. Dresden was called out to...
At about 7 o'clock in the evening of the 26th February, the screw steamer Tuskar, \ of Glasgow, bound from Dundee to Liver- j pool, got on shore, in heavy weather, on the Abertay Sand Bank, at the mouth of , the Kiver Tay, A heavy sea...
OCT. 2 5 T H . - REDCAR, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.32 P.M. a message was received from the Saltburn coastguard that a resident at Skinningrove had seen three red flares showing well out to sea. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a...
NIGHT SIGNALS (wwfead of Ae a&ooe). Lights in Triangle or Square.
X i Pour lanterns and two yards, each not less than four feet long, will be sufficient—as only one signal will be used at night.
These...
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NEW QUAY | 10 JULY
A 9-year-old schoolgirl who got trapped under giant rocks at Aberaeron Beach, was freed by New Quay lifeboat crew. The girl, in welly boots, became stuck during a game of...
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The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
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CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Eight fishing-cobles were endeavouring to return home while a heavy sea was breaking on the bar on the 31st January.
As they would incur considerable risk in crossing, the Life...
OCTOBER 25TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. During a south-westerly gale, with very rough seas, the naval authorities at Portsmouth asked the Bembridge life-boat to go to the help of two ships in distress off Horse Sands...