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HARWICH. — The Cork light - vessel having signalled on the 6th June, the Steam Life-boat City of Glasgow left her moorings at 9.15 P.M., and on reaching the lightship ascertained that a vessel was on the West Bocks. A moderate breeze was...
THE committee of management greatly regret the death, on 28th July, at the age of 72. of their colleague Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Bland Dixon, K.C.B. Sir Robert concluded a dis- tinguished career in the navy by serving as engineer-in...
Category: Obituaries
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 12.45 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1952, the Clacton coastguard saw a man in difficulties in the sea.
He was one of a party of four men in a rowing boat. An oar had been lost...
By the death on September iyth. of Mrs. Edith Astley Roberts, President of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Institution has lost one of the most devoted and successful honorary workers whom it has ever had. The Life-boat...
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Category: Photographs
Two saved from trimaran Lowestoft - East Division The coxswain and second coxswain of Lowestoft's Tyne class lifeboat Spirit of Lowestoft have received letters of thanks from the Chairman of the RNLI following a service on 5 July 1989 in...
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TWO CALLS TO DINGHIES IN ONE EVENING Blackpool, Lancashire. At 5.45 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard telephoned to say three youths in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea a mile off Rossall Point. At 6.15...
Minehead, Somerset - At 2.30 a.m.
on loth March, 1967, the m.v. Farringay was reported aground off Minehead and bumping heavily. The life-boat B.H.M.H. was launched at 3 o'clock in a fresh north westerly wind and a...