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NOVEMBER 5TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. During the afternoon information was received from the principal light-keeper of the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse, that one of the keepers had cut an artery in his arm and ought to be brought ashore...
Band Spirit
Band spirit Tynemouth lifeboat band, otherwise known as Lenny Park and the Pagers, have been gigging regularly to raise cash for lifeboat coffers.
To date the band has helped Supporters Ashore of the Lifeboat at Tynemouth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Polly
OCTOBER 26TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 2.50 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported a message, from the Morecambe Bay Light-vessel, that a vessel two miles north of the light-vessel was making distress signals. A...
Ravensworth, of Hartlepool
Again, at daylight on the following morning, a brig was observed ashore on the west side of Blakeney Harbour- way. She was lying on her beam-ends.
The wind and sea were tremendous, but the life-boat was launched, and as...
C. Neumann Gaedebehn
WALMER.—A telegram was received on ,he morning of the 3rd November, stating that a vessel was ashore in Pegwell Bay.A gale of wind was blowing from the S.S.W., with a heavy sea and squalls of rain. The Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was...
Lifeboats heading to TV screens
Always gripping, often dramatic - it's no wonder the BBC will soon be airing a new documentary about the work of our volunteer lifesavers. The forthcoming series- Saving Lives At Sea -tells the story of volunteers at a variety of UK...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of this ; truly national and useful Society was held j at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon ,' Street, on the 4th of June. In the un- ; avoidable absence of His Grace the DUKE ', OF MARLBOROUGH,...
Category: Meetings
Agnes, of Preston
MARCH 29TH . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 3.50 in the afternoon the Hoylake coastguard reported that a fishing boat was ashore on the Burbo Bank and that seas were washing over her. Two men and a boy were on board. A strong west-southwest,...
Crecy
MAY 11TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 9.33 at night the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported that the local fishing smack Crecy was in need of help off Corton. The weather was foggy, a light easterly breeze blowing, and the sea...
Eagerfgelh, of Oslo
OCTOBER 18TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 12.30 in the afternoon the harbour master received a wireless message from the motor ship Eagerfgelh, of Oslo, that she was off the harbour, had trouble with her engine, and needed a pilot to...