At 7.40 P.M.
on the llth November, a message was received from the Yarmouth Coast Guard stating that a vessel was burning flares off Yarmouth Pier, and that the Yarmouth Life-boat was unable to launch. The Coxswain of the...
SELSEY.—The barque Tranmere, of Liverpool, bound from Hull to Cardiff in ballast, brought up off Selsey Bill, during a gale of wind from the 8. and in a very heavy sea, at about noon on the 2nd September.
A fisherman's...
William Adams, Coxswain of the North Deal Life-boat, died on 23rd October last, in his seventy-sixth year. Probably no Life-boat Coxswain was better known to the public, and few have had a more dis- tinguished career. Born on 5th April, 1851...
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DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—During a severe gale on the 20th October the barque Lebu, of Liverpool, at anchor about five miles from Douglas Head, hoisted signals of distress, in response to which the Douglas No. 2 Life-boat, the John Turner Turner...
ON November 19th, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing at Broadstairs, and about mid-day three boys, on their way home from school, went on the pier to watch the breaking seas. One of them was seen standing by himself on the steps at the head...
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After the Weeley Festival in Essex, where thousands of pop fans congregated, a letter was received by The Daily Telegraph enclosing a cheque for £5 for the R.N.L.I. It was explained by the senders, Mr. Peter F. Amott and...
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Coxswain Jeffrey Wright, of Fleetwood, and the moter mechanic, Sydney Hill, have been awarded the Institution's silver medal, and each of the other four members of the crew its vellum, for rescuing the crew of a motor schooner from the...
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—His Most Gracious Majesty the King
ROYAL Highness THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
—Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, BART., V.P. Deputy Chairman —Colonel FitzRoy CLAYTON, V.P.
Secretary -CHARLES...
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