IT is impossible at present to get more of the small metal life-boat collecting boxes. Nor will it be possible to get them for a long time. Meanwhile the Institution has none. If any branches have boxes which they are not using, will they...
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LOOE, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 22nd October, during rough weather, the Looe Life-boat was launched and proceeded through a heavy ground sea to a small fishing-boat named the Ada, of Devonport, which had lost her foresail, jib, and...
On the 12th February, signals of distress were shown by the three-masted schooner Mary Watkinson, of Barrow, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden therefore went to her assistance. She was drifting towards the shore at Penrhos Point, dragging her...
A woman in Leeds has given to the Life-boat Service her first week's old age pension. A London mother has sent it a pound in gratitude for the safe journey of her children across the sea. A boy in Ilford has sent it half-a-ctovm which he...
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FIREMEN ON BOARD North Sunderland, Northumberland.
On the evening of i6th October, 1963, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that he had been told that two vessels had been in collision in Newton Bay and that one...
During a strong easterly gale on the llth Decem- ber the French schooner La Fiancee, of Paimpol, came into Campbeltown Harbour for shelter. She let go her anchors, but owing to the strength of the gale the anchors dragged, and the vessel...
Appledore boathouse opening The official opening and dedication of the Appledore lifeboat house took place on 29 September 2001. Storm Force member Harriet Weatherby Crompton (12) cut the ribbon and officially declared the boathouse open.<... - View image in PDF
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Lowes toft, Suffolk.—At 6.58 on the evening of the 24th of August, 1957, it was reported that a yacht had cap- sized off Claremont pier. The life- boat Greater London (Civil Service No.
3), on temporary duty at the station,...
On the 28th March a message by telephone was received stating that a schooner was close in shore evidently making for Mont rose. As a strong gale was blowingfrom the E. and there was a very heavy sea on the bar, the Life-boat Robert...
On the 1st January, 1861 the sloop Thomas and Jane, of Dundee carried away her main boom, and having nearly four feet of water in her hold, and the master and crew being quite exhausted hoisted a signal of distress, which was seen from...