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Wells: Roadway to Lifeboat House (R) Was Washed Away In Two Places Raf Wessex Helicopter Ferries Sandbags to Fill Breaks Photograph By Courtesy of Rnli Enthusi
Wells: Roadway to lifeboat house (r.) was washed away in two places. RAF Wessex helicopter ferries sandbags to fill breaks. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of RNLI Enthusiasts Society, Cromer and District Research Group. - View image in PDF
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Paul Boyton (1)
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—On the 20th September, at about 12.30 A.M., the ship Paul Boyton, of Yarmouth, N.S., 1097 tons, bound from Baltimore to Hamburg with a cargo of maize, went ashore on the Goodwin Sands during a fresh wind from the W....
Melanie
Swanage, Dorset.—At 9.20 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning red flares off Chap- man's Pool. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 9.24. There was a rough sea with a heavy...
The S.S. Kittiwake
WHITHORN, N.B.—The s.s. Kittiwake, of Carlisle, while leaving Whithorn Harbour, at about 11.15 P.M. on the 6th March, during a fresh S. breeze, got her steering gear foul, and stranded on the Screens Rocks. The coxswain of the Life-boat,...
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Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 23rd March, 1938, a message was received from Sandness that a woman on the island of Papa Stour was seriously ill and in need of a doctor. Owing to very bad weather the regular ferry service to the...
Mrs Irene Craig
Mrs Irene Craig, founder chairman of Lowestoft ladies' guild 21 years ago, with the lead crystal bowl presented to her by Lowestoft branch at her retirement. With her are Coxswain Peter Gibbons and Michael Chapman, honorary secretary.... - View image in PDF
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Cheyenne
_ _ Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork. — At 3.20 A.M. on the 16th September, 1939, a telephone message was received from the Superintendent of the Coast Life-Saving Service that the motor vessel Cheyenne, a tanker of Newcastle, had been sunk by enemy...
A Dinghy
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 p.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard notified the mechanic that a small boat was in difficulties off Carreg-y- Defaid. At 12.54 tne IRB launched in a gentle to moderate northerly breeze and smooth...
A Hint to Parents
It will never be said of my children (the girls' any more than the boys), in case of a boat capsizing, " none of the party could swim ;" — the dreary and shameful announcement which we see in the newspaper reports of the...
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