FLAMBOROUGH.—The Life-boat Grace and Lolly of Broad Oak went out at about 10.45 P.M., on the 23rd November, and rescued the crew, consisting of eight men, from the brig Tartar, of Salcombe, which was wrecked on the rocks off Flamborough...
TENBY, SOUTH WALES. — The ketch Honor, of and from Cardiff, for St. David's with coal, showed signals of distress while riding at anchor in the roadstead, daring a very heavy gale from the S.W., on the 8th December. The Anne Collin...
PORTHDINLLAEN. — A schooner was observed in distress, having lost all her sails, about two or three miles N.W. of Porthdinllaen Head, during a very heavy gale from N.N.W. on the morning of the 20th May. The Life-boat George Moore put off at...
On the 22nd October, during foggy weather, the ship Miahiels Loos, of Antwerp, was stranded abreast of No. 35 Martello Tower. The Solicitors' and Proctors' life-boat Storm Sprite, stationed at Winchelsea, went off and remained by the...
The No. 2 Life- boat, British Workman, left this station on the 24th October in stormy weather, and boarded the Lily, a barque laden with timber, which was stranded on the Has- borongh Sands; and, finding her to be deserted, took possession,...
he Florence Life-boat of this station proceeded through heavy squalls to the assistance of the schooner Aden, ...
On the 25th March during foggy weather the fishing- boat Clupeidae, of Lowestoft, grounded on a flat off Kirkley Beach. The Life- j boat was launched to her assistance, ! and when a tug came upon the scene, : conveyed a hawser to...
A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd...
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The Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund continues to maintain its splendid record for the R.N.L.I., and in 1970 for the first time raised over £30,000. In 1970 the Post Office, Inland Revenue, Ministry of Public Buildings and...
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PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At i p.m. on 19th December, 1965, the local doctor asked for a woman patient to be taken to the mainland for hospital treatment. The life-boat Mary Stanford^ on temporary duty at the station, set out at i .45 in a light...