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A Cabin cruiser
RED FLARES At 5.15 p.m. on ist December, 1964, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser off Broad Bench had fired red flares. There was a choppy sea with a moderate to fresh north-easterly wind. The...
The Service In 1943.
In 1943 life-boats rescued 469 lives and helped to save 47 boats and vessels from destruction. Of their 411 launches, 249, or nearly two-thirds, were to ships and aeroplanes in distress on account of the war. Life-boatmen won 30 medals for...
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The Screw Steamer Bebside
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE,—On the after- noon of the 15th March the Life-boat Hannah Somerstt, placed by the Institu-tion at this small town on the Yorkshire coast a few months ago, was successful in saving the lives of 15 persons from the wrecked...
A Trawler
MARCH 18TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
Shortly after seven in the morning the body of a man was found among the rocks near Gourdon. There was a fog, and when it lifted a trawler could be seen.
The...
Viscount Macduff
The schooner Viscount Macduff, of Macduff, N.B., while entering the harbour of Tynemouth during the night of the 26th December, was struck by a heavy sea, which washed overboard the captain and one of the crew, who were at the wheel at the...
Y L a News
THE Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association is going from strength to strength as word gets about that a yachtsman who is not a member is like a ship without a rudder. As reported in the June issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, there is...
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The S.S. Letchworth
NOVEMBER 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA.
ESSEX. At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard at the pier head telephoned that a ship was in distress near the Mouse Light-vessel. A fresh wind was blowing. At 3.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater...
A Boat (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.55 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties one mile east of Tynemouth North Point. At 12.10 the life-boat...
A Fishing Lugger
On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from the N.E. at the time. The...
Sensitive
At 8 o'clock on the morning of October 19th intelligence reached the station of a vessel being on the north end of the Arklow Bank. It was then blowing a moderate gale from the S.E. with very high sea. The Life-boat Out-Pensioner was...