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An Aeroplane (128)
AUGUST 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A British fighter aeroplane had been reported down in the sea to the E.N.E. of Gorleston, but the lifeboat was recalled when it was learned that the aeroplane had come down sixty miles...
An Aeroplane (203)
DECEMBER 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea 3 miles E.N.E. of Lowestoft, but nothing was found, except a blue mitten which sank before it could be picked up. -...
Emily
GBOOMSPOBT, Co. DOWN.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 12th February in reply to signals the Life-boat Florence proceeded to the aid of the steamer Emily, of Snnderland, which had stranded on the Bridge's Eeef during a moderate...
Vim
Teesmouth, Yorkshire - At 10.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor launch Vim, which had left the Tees at 3 p.m. to take stores to the tankerPrimbro anchored in Tees bay, had neither...
Frandor
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 4.4 on the afternoon of 21st April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an explosion had occurred aboard the motor vessel Frandor in a position four miles south- west-by-west...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Hubert Petit, of St. Peter Port, Guernsey, who is only the third man to win the Institution's highest award for gallantry, its gold medal, since the war. An account of the service for which he...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (19)
FEBRUARY 24TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported in difficulties fifteen miles east of Haisborough, but although the life-boat and aeroplanes made a search nothing was found.
- Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (181)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - PEEL ISLE OF MAN. It had been reported that an aeroplane was missing and that a body with a life-jacket was floating in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £17 6s. 3d..
New Life-Boats Named
THREE new life-boats were named in July, 1958. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, agreed to name two of them and her daughter, H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, named the third. The life-boats which were to be named by the...
Category: Inaugurations
An Italian Barque
KINGSDOWNE.—During a strong S.W.
breeze and hazy weather on the 29th December, signals of distress were shown from a vessel ashore on the Goodwin sands. The Kingsdowne Life-boat proceeded to her, and' found she was an...