HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. On the evening of the 16th of February, 1944, three men came ashore in their own punt from a hopper of the London Midland and Scottish Railway and anchored in the harbour. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
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HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
The annual service at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.. - View image in PDF
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After the first sixteen months of the war the building of new life-boats almost ceased, and during the five years, eight months and five days of war, the Institution was able to send to the coast only seventeen new life-boats instead of the...
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Appledore's Atlantic 21 On Exercise. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain Richard Eglon, of Whitby, who died on 18th September at the age of eighty-five, had had a long and distinguished career in the life-boat service. He had been an officer of life-boats for thirty-one years. He served as bowman at...
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The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—26th August, 1939. Rockets hadbeen seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her...
Margate, Kent.—25th July, 1939.
A small rowing boat was drifting out with a boy in it, but before the lifeboat arrived it was found by a motor boat. The boy was exhausted and, after he had been given water and chocolate...
MOTOR BOAT LOST IN FOG Appledore, North Devon. At 7.45 on the morning of Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Belgica with two people on board was lost in dense fog near the bar.
At 7.55...