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Category: Photographs
NORTH DEAL, KENT.—The s.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...
Category: Services
Friday, 23rd February, 1923.
The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :—
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Category: Committee
HARTLEPOOL.—At 10 o'clock on the night of the 1st October, the No. 1 Lifeboat, Charles Mather, gallantly rescued, in a heavy surf, 3 men, being part of the crew of the barque Auffredy, of Sunderland, which had driven ashore 3i miles...
IN the year 1851 the first self-righting Life-boat was built by Mr. JAMES BEECHING, the well-known boat-builder, at Yarmouth, who had obtained the prize of 1007., which had been offered in the previous year by Admiral the DUKE of...
Category: Articles
A Response of over £750.
ON Sunday, 2nd March, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Institution was allowed to make a three-minute appeal as " the week's good cause." This...
Category: Articles
JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...
Second Coxswain William Mowat, of Longhope, and Mr. Edward Bensley, of Gorleston.
Two life-boatmen died last October, each of whom had the remarkable record of fifty-three years' service in the life-boat. One was...
Category: Obituaries
A detail from a painting by Dr. E. H. Sears, of Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hants, of the last moments of the Longhope life-boat before the seas lifted her up so that she was found hours later upturned..
Category: Drawings