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Broughton
At noon on the 14th November the barque Broughton, of Liverpool, bound from Shields to Val- paraiso, was observed drifting towards the land east of Brighton, during a heavy gale from the W.S.W. The Broughton had lost her mizen-mast, and had...
The Lord Mayor's Show
LAST November, for the first time since 1924, the Centenary year, a Lifeboat took part in the Lord Mayor's Show. The Boat was a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat from the Reserve Fleet at the Store-yard at Poplar. She was drawn by a...
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The Admiralty Fuelling Steamer Rosa
A Fine Service at Flamborough.
A fine service was carried out by the Flamborough No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, Forester, on April 28th, when she rescued the crew of sixteen of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. In...
Optima
The four- masted barque Optima, of Hamburg, stranded on the Haisborough Sands on the morning of the 19th January, and the guns fired by the Light-vessels brought several Life-boats and tugs in the vicinity to her assistance. The vessel was 2...
Denise Germaine
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.32 on the morning of the 20th of February, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Denise Germaine, of Zee- brugge, had been wrecked on the Long Sandbank, west-by-north of the Barrow Deep lightvessel....
Interwave
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk and Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8.4 a.m. on 13th March, 1970, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Interwave was aground on the Cross Sands bank. The Great Yarmouth and...
The East German M.V. Saale
Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
Two Boats, Two Rowing Boats, a Motor Boat, a 14-foot Boat
TWO YOUTHS SAVED—FOUR BOATS ESCORTED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.20 on the morning of Sunday, the 29th September, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in trouble off the river Tyne. This was confirmed by...
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Knocked head A FISHERMAN was sorting fish on Courtmacsherry Pier on the afternoon of Tuesday June 30, 1981, when he lost his footing and fell into the river, hitting his head on the sloping stone face on the way down and losing consciousness...
Contents
The Winter 1989/90 Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 510 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution...
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