NOVEMBER 8TH . - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea thirty-seven miles in a N.E. direction from Kinnaird Head, but nothing was found. The life-boat was out for ten and a half hours. - Rewards, £23...
SEPTEMBER 21ST. APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed eight miles north of Hartland Point, and at four in the afternoon the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched. A squally N.W. by W. wind was blowing, with a...
OCTOBER 12TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane was reported to have dived into the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 3s. 6d..
" STEADILY onwards," may be said to be the policy of the Institution, in regard to the installation of motive power in its Fleet of Life- boats.
A year ago we gave a description of the various boats which were...
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Aberystwyth, Dyfed January 3.
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan February 1 and 2.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd December 8.
Broughty Ferry, Angus December 2.
Eastney, Hampshire...
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Motorboat aground ON THE EVENING of Saturday April 24, 1982, the small fishing boat Lona M ran aground on the rocks of North Wamses Island, about four miles east of North Sunderland lifeboat station. Mr Hawkey, warden for the Fame Islands...
Epic rescue at RosslareA French trawler with five crew was drifting without power 14 mites south of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse on the south coast of Ireland so the Arun class Mabel Williams slipped her moorings at 2.37pm on 5 November...
February 25.—The ship Simoon, of Liverpool, during foggy weather, struck on a sunken rock in St. Bride's Bay. Six men went off to her assistance in a shore boat, and after some difficulty, from the thickness of the fog, they succeeded in...
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Pat Dewhurst, honorary secretary of Penwortham fund raising branch was asked to give this account of what lies behind the £4,OOU they bring in for the RNLI each year at a recent regional conference Readers who spend time on similar...
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AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, "Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 21st day of March, The Eight Honourable Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty,...
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