The new North Sunderland life-boat was named Grace Darling at the life- boat station at Seahouses on the 31st of July. Mr. H. E. B. Daniell, chair- man of the North Sunderland branch, took the chair. Lieut. E. D. Stogdon, R.N.V.R., district...
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Spear 9m Police Launch Waveney 134m Self-righting Lifeboat & craft for the total coastguard coocepl Tracker 19-6m Air-Sea Rescue Launch Manager Military Sales, Fairey Marine Group, Hamble, Southampton.
Telephone: Hamble...
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AUGUST 31ST. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. Bombing aeroplanes had collidedin mid-air, but nothing was found by the lifeboat.
A rescue boat rescued one airman and picked up some bodies. - Rewards, £14 1s. 3d..
THE ROYAL EVENT OF THE YEAR! The 40th Anniversary of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II's Accession to the Throne.
SIX MAGNIFICENT COMMEMORATIVE PIECES TO HONOUR THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH ll ACCESSION TO THE...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down. About 2.45 on the afternoon of the 5th July, 1961, the honorary secretary received a pre- liminary message from the coastguard that the police had reported two boys stranded on rocks off Millisle. This was confirmed...
BY the death on the 6th of February, of His Majesty King George VI, the Life-boat Service lost not only a beloved Sovereign but its own Patron.
He had carried on the tradition of over a century and a quarter that the...
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NOVEMBER 5TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. A trawler had struck a rock and had sunk off Cape Clear Island, but the five survivors of the crew of eleven were rescued by people on the island. - Rewards, £9...
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
PLEASURE PARTY RESCUED Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.50 in the even- ing of January 12th, 1947, the pilot house telephoned that a boat to the north of Lady Isle was making flares.
A strong north-easterly breeze was blowing, with a...
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—At about 10 A.H., on the 25th June, a rowing boat, which had gone out early in the morning to gather mussels in the Tees, attempted to make for Redcar. Her crew of a man and two boys were in danger as the wind had...