Jan. 10.—Voted an aneroid barometer to Mr. Gr. H. WARD, master of the Trinity pilot cutter Alpha, and 10s. each to three of the crew for putting off in a boat from the cutter and rescuing ten of the crew of H.M. yawl Hind, which had stranded...
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THE portrait on the cover is of Captain William Watts-Williams, the coxswain of the St. David's life-boat. Captain Watts-Williams first went to sea at the age of thirteen, forty-nine years ago, and after a long and varied career,...
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At 4.5 in the afternoon, on the 14th of January, 1951, the Mablethorpe coastguard tele- phoned that the Gorleston superintend- ent of Trinity House had asked for the life-boat to land a sick man from the Humber...
LANDING AN INJURED MAN IN A ROUGH SEA New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 15th of November, 1947, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board asked for the life-boat to land the mate of the Bar Light-vessel, who had been severely...
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 17th November, 1937, the Lynn Well Lightship reported, through Cromer and the local coastguard, that a barge seemed to be in distress about four miles away. An easterly gale was blowing, with a...
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— On the afternoon of 16th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that he had seen the sailing boat Sea-gull, of Lowestoft, capsize about three miles south of the harbour entrance. A fresh south breeze...
THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, praised the courage of the Penlee lifeboat crew lost last December and of their families at the annual general meeting of the governors of the RNLI held in London on Tuesday morning May 11. The Duke...
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THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1949 - - 76,495 The First Quarter of the Second Century On the 4th of March...
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Reported to the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
May Meeting.
St. Helier, Jersey.—Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's...
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The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
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