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Comforter
CLACTON-ON-SEA. — In response to messages by telephone and signal guns fired from the Swin Middle Light-Vessel, on the morning of the 22nd March, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 8.50 and found the brig Comforter, of Tonsberg,...
An Aeroplane (30)
MARCH 10TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
A damaged aeroplane was expected to come down in the sea and the life-boat went out to stand by, but she was recalled by wireless as the aeroplane had landed elsewhere.- Rewards, £9 19s....
Tarbek
Workington, Cumberland.—On the 29th of April, 1957, the master of the motor vessel Tarbek, of Hamburg, anchored off the entrance to Working- ton harbour, asked if a doctor could be sent to his vessel to attend six members of his crew. The...
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Founded more than 185 years ago, the RNLI was more than just a dream for Sir William Hillary (see...
Category: Articles
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Fowey, Cornwall. At 10.13 P-m- °n I5th August, 1965, news came that a man and a boy were cut off by the tide on the west side of Lansallos beach. The lifesaving apparatus team were on their way and the assistance of the life-boat was...
Life-Boat Stations on the Dutch Coast
Total: 49 Life-boats, including 2 Steam Life-boats and 5 Motor Life-boats, and 27 Line-throwing Apparatus.
Category: Charts
Granite City and Sheila
At 11.5 P.M. on the 26th November, a vessel was observed about two miles from the I shore to the north of Eyemouth, burn- ing flares and sounding her siren con- tinuously. She had previously been seen to be burning flares off St. Abbs Head,...
Income and Expenditure for 1933
EXPENDITURE.
Life-boats :— £ s. d. £ s. d.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aberystwyth, Anstruther, Dungeness, Exmouth, Lizard, Llandudno, Longhope,...
Category: Accounts
Blackmail
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—-It was reported that a vessel was ashore and showing signals of distress, on the north side of Lune at midnight on the 28th October, during a strong N.W. breeze. 'The Child of Hale Life-boat promptly went to her...
The S.S. Baron Inverclyde
DOCTOR TAKEN TO STEAMER IN FOG Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.50 on the morning of the 27th January, 1962, a firm of shipping agents in Barrow told the honorary secretary that the s.s.
Baron Inverclyde of Ardrossan, bound for...