On the light self-righting life-boat at Bridlington. The loud-hailer is in front of the mast.. - View image in PDF
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Sheringham, and Cromer, Norfolk.
At 9.50 on the morning of the 31st of May, 1958, the Cromer coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a re- quest had been made by the Trinity House Superintendent at Great Yar...
Above: The drummer boy would walk through the village to alert the crew when they were needed for a rescue. - View image in PDF
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A Disaster at Arbroath.
EAELY on 30th November last, two fishing yawls, the Restless Ocean and the Dutiful, put out from Arbroath, the weather being fine and the sea smooth.
About seven in the morning the...
COXSWAIN DOUGLAS GRANT, of Selsey, and Coxswain Henry West, of Sheringham, have become the first two members of life-boat crews to receive gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.
This fund was established in 1955...
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THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- srmrnoN, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head light- vessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
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FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...
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At 2 o'clock on the morning of the 26th February, during a whole S.S.W. gale with a very heavy sea, signals of distress were ob- served from a vessel in the bay. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was at once ordered out, and...
FEBRUARY 15TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
About 8.10 in the morning the Stornoway coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress in the neighbourhood of Glas Island, Scalpay, some forty miles away. She was the Sebastian,...