On the following morning a schooner was seen stranded close to the spot where the Energy had sunk. The Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 5 o'clock and on reaching the vessel—which proved to be the schooner Cymbeline, of London— the...
THE forty-first anniversary of this ad- mirable society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, on the 27th May, under the presidency of Admiral Sir ALEXANDER MILNE, G.C.B., Vice- President.
Amongst those...
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Margate, Kent.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, the Margate coastguard tele- phoned that a large yacht appeared to be in trouble approximately nine miles north by west of Margate. At 3.10 the life-boat...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
APRIL 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A message was received from the son of the life-boat coxswain, Dumble, that his father and his father’s partner were out in their crab-boat Gwendoline off West Runton, attending to their...
POOLE.—The Life-boat Manley Wood, stationed at the entrance of this harbour, put to sea on the 12th March, during a strong gale at S.W., to assist the crew of a vessel reported to be ashore near Bourne- mouth. The ketch William Pitt was...
Cullercoats: Miss Diana Phillips afloat in the C class inflatable lifeboat partly funded by her gift in memory of her parents, Mr and Mrs H. A. Phillips; she was shown the lifeboat at RNLI Cowes base before it was sent to Cullercoats, where,... - View image in PDF
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MONTBOSE.— The smack London, of Jersey, was in great danger at 1.30 P.M.
on the 18th March, having steered too far north while making for Montrose. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, having been launched, took up a position...
FOLLOWING THE RESCUE OH August 12 of a student who had fallen over cliffs at Petit Tor, Torbay ambulance divisional commander, John Bourne, told Torbay honorary secretary, Captain Barry Anderson, how impressed he was with the way the ILB...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on theafternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the schooner Lora, of East Mersea, had had some of her sails carried away and was drifting east-by-south of Clacton Pier. At 3.2...