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DIFFICULT TOWS Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.5 in the morning of the 28th of November, 1947, the life-boat coxswain picked up a message on his wireless from the local motor fishing vessel Gem, that her rudder had been broken, and the No. 1 motor...

About 1 P.M. on 6th April the Coxswain saw that the small motor fishing boat Lively, of Stomoway, was in difficulties outside the harbour. A moderate W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and sleet showers. The Motor Life- boat William...

At noon on the 14th November the barque Broughton, of Liverpool, bound from Shields to Val- paraiso, was observed drifting towards the land east of Brighton, during a heavy gale from the W.S.W. The Broughton had lost her mizen-mast, and had...

To WM. CHAS. JAMES, on his retirement, after serving four years as Second Coxswain and eighteen years as Coxswain of the Point of Ayr Life-boat, a Framed Certificate of Service and a Pension.

To JOSEPH HUGHES, on his...