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Sepoy

Date: February 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 317

.—On the 13th Decem- ber the barge Sepoy, of Dover, was wrecked off Cromer. Both the Cromer life-boats went to her help and the motor life-boat rescued the crew of two.

—Rewards to the crew of the motor life-boat, bar to...

H.M. Trawler Marjory Hastie (1)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.

At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one ofH.M. trawlers had struck a mine about...

A Dinghy (1)

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

On the evening of the 9th of August^ 1958, four people were rescued from a cave after a dinghy manned by four members of the St. Ives, Cornwall, life-boat crew had been holed and sunk.

For this service, a full account of...

Mrs. L. R. Lowe, Gosfield

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

MRS. LOUISA RUTH LOWE, of Gosfield Hall, Essex, who died on 24th February in her 95th year had for eighteen years been the president of the Halstead and Gosfield branch, and had taken a very personal and generous interest in its work. She...

Category: Obituaries

What Is a Covenant?

Date: September 1969

Volume: 41

Issue: 429

Covenant is an old-fashioned word which in modern English is the equivalent of 'undertake' or 'promise'. If an individual or a company undertakes to pay a charity a certain sum each year for a minimum of seven years, then the...

Category: Donations

None

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

YOUTHS ON ROCKS Dover, Kent. At 9.39 p.m. on 9th May, 1964, a message from Dover harbour control tower reported a small fire at the foot of the cliffs at Fan Bay between Dover and St. Margaret's. At 9.56 the life-boat Southern Africa...

Mark H. Leach

Date: December 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 344

HELPLESS WITH BROKEN RUDDER Peterhead, Aberdeenihire.—At about 4.30 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1947, the coastguard re- ported that a vessel was burning flares three miles south-east by east of the coastguard station, and the...

A Motor Launch (1)

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

SEPTEMBER 7TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.

At two in the morning the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was ashore in Hoy Sound one hundred yards north-east of Ness Beacon and in need of help.

A...

Aurora

Date: February 1888

Volume: 13

Issue: 147

DONNA NOOK.—The Richard Life-boat was launched at 8 A.M. on the 20th September, during a N.E. wind, squally weather and a rough sea, to the assistance of the fishing dandy Aurora, of Hull, which had stranded near Donna...

Crest

Date: Spring 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 354

Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At half past eight in the evening, on the 19th of May, 1950, a telephone call from Port Skerra reported a fishing boat flying distress signals. At 8.45 the life-boat H.C.J. was launched in a rough sea with a strong...