GOURDOR, JOHNSHAVEN, MONTROSE AND ARBROATH. — A strong gale suddenly sprung up on the east coast of Scotland on the morning of the 6th January and the fishing fleets were compelled to return as quickly as possible to the...
With members of Toe H manning the Life-boat and members of the British Legion collecting.. - View image in PDF
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, Northumber- land.—Ort the 22nd December the Grimsby steam trawler Guillemot stranded, and three men of the crew were rescued by the Boulmer Motor Life-boat. The Holy Island No. 1 Motor Life-boat was also launched.
The...
25th De- cember. The Swedish steamer Bella, of Gothenburg, stranded, but the crew got ashore without help.—Rewards, £18 15s..
Dover, Kent.-—At about 1.40 P.M. on the 5th June, 1938, the Sandgate coastguard reported that a yacht had been dismasted half a mile S.S.W. of the Admiralty Pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Sir William...
On the 20th of August, 1952, the Ramsgate life-boat went to the help of a United States ship which had been in a collision with a Norwegian tanker.
The American ship broke in two, but the life-boat managed to save her...
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare about one and a half miles north of Rossall Point, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
The Norwegian ship Baalbek crashed into the Great Nore Fort in a fog (See page 576). - View image in PDF
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H.R.H. the Princess Royal presents the silver medal for gallantry to Coxswain Thomas Richards, of Tenby (see page 705). - View image in PDF
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Before going to her station the new Aith life-boat was exhibited at the International Boat Show at Earls Court. - View image in PDF
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