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The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer. He became a member of the Cromer crew in January, 1894, at the age of eighteen.
In 1902 he was appointed second cox- swain, and in 1909 coxswain. In 1917...
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Frank, of Grimsby
WITHERNSEA.—On the 8th January, at 5 A.M., the smack Frank, of Grimsby, having on board a crew of 10 persons, was driven ashore off Waxholme, 2 miles north of Withernsea, during an E.S.E.
gale, accompanied by a heavy sea....
Brune
BURNHAM, SOMERSET.—Soon after 7 P.M.
on the 7th August, the coxswain of the Life-boat saw that the schooner Brune, of Bridgwater, had stranded near Highbridge Pill, and that the crew had been compelled to take to the...
The S.S. Attiki
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—In response to signals of distress shortly after 10 P.M. on the 27th April the Life-boat Hubert and Susan went to the assistance of the s.s. Attiki, of Andros, Greece, which ran on to the rocks at Newbiggin Church...
None
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. •— At five in the evening of the 15th of No- vember, 1948, an urgent call was received for the life-boat to take a woman, who was suffering with acute appendicitis, to Lochboisdale, in South Uist. The...
Gertruda
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.55 P.M. on the 25th February the Wyke Regis coastguard reported that a vessel two miles S.S.W. of Lulworth look-out was burning red flares. She was the motor vessel Gertruda, of London, and her engine had broken down....
Notre Dame des Flots
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.49 in the evening of the 20th of April, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a French fishing boat had been seen to go aground on the Brake Sands, and at 5.57 the life-boat Prudential left her moorings. The sea was...
Jean Horsley
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 2.47 early on the morning of the 9th of February, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a boat off the Palliser Works, north of Hartlepool, was burning flares, and at 3.15 the life-boat The Princess Royal, Civil Service...
A Motor Boat
Salcombe, Devon.—At 6.14 on the evening of the 13th of October, 1953.
the Hope Cove coastguard rang up to say that a small boat was burning- flares half a mile west of Prawle. At 6.25 the life-boat Samuel and Marie...