10th November. A sailing boat with twenty men and women on board, mostly agricultural workers returning from the Scottish potato harvest, put off from Burtonport for Arran Island at about 6 P.M. on the 9th November. There was a moderate but...
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the evening of the 7th of April a small vessel was observed in the Wallet Channel, S.E. of Clacton Pier, during a strong S.W. wind and a very rough sea. With the aid of a powerful glass, it was seen that she wasdisabled,...
A GIFT of 5s. 8d. has been received from a holiday camp of 180 poor children of Hull. These children were sent for a holiday by friends to a camp on the Humber, near the life-boat station at Spurn Point. They asked their officers if they...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MA R C H 2 7 T H . - B O U L M E R , NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian coast...
On the night of the 4th February the Jane Anne was again called out to the assistance of the galliot Alpha, of Riga, which also stranded to the north of the harbour. A tug-boat went to her, but after making two ineffectual attempts to get...
THE Life-boat Stamp Club, which was started at the end of 1933 by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Qommon, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch of the Institution, now has a branch of its own at Cromer. This branch...
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Fitted by Marconi on the Watson cabin life-boat at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY MEETING SOUTHAMPTON WATER, HAMPSHIRE. At 6.30 in the evening of the 11th of October, 1944, six cadets set off from Millbrook Pier in a dinghy for the training-ship Moyana, 200 yards away. A strong south-west wind was blowing. The sea...
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Air cases of the 4I-feet Watson motor life-boat stationed at Shoreham Harbour. This type has 145 of these cases.. - View image in PDF
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HARWICH.—At 5.30 P.M. on the 24th January, the Springivell Life-boat was launched in reply to signals from the Gunfleet Lightship. She sailed to her through a rough sea, and was informed that there was a vessel on the " Heaps," a...