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At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February a message was received by telephone stat- j ing that a vessel was in distress off I Buddonness Lighthouse. A strong gale was blowing at the time with a heavy j sea. The motor Life-boat Maria was at...
CAISTER.—The No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 7th June, during a thick fog, a freslj S. breeze and a heavy sea, to the assistance of the fishing dandy Ocean Star, of Great Yarmouth, which had stranded on the...
At about 8.55 A.M. on 3rd January a message was received from the Coastguard that a ketch, with a distress signal flying, was dragging her anchors near No. 1 Black Buoy, and was in danger of stranding on the Causeway off Puffin Island. The...
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From photograph oy Captain E. W. Swan, C.B.E., V.D., D.L, R.N.y.R., a member of the Committee of Management and Chairman gj the Tynemouth Branch.. - View image in PDF
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Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At 3.3 on the afternoon of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht had capsized in Magilli- gan Bay. At 3.20 the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) was...
. . . And a young son: Craig, the eldest son of Coxswain Fred Walkington of Bridlington, ready to take his place as one of the crew of the lifeboat float for the Bridlington Lions carnival last summer. The float won a cup and it also won... - View image in PDF
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ON Sunday, ist November, 1964, the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all life-boat services was commemorated at Whitby. This was the rescue from the hospital ship Rohilla.
The Rohilla, a vessel of 7,365 tons...
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FOUND IN FOG Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 10.20 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the shingle bank half a mile north of the south-west shingle buoy. The life-boat George and Sarah...