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I have been asked, and willingly consent, to write a word commending to the generosity of people of this country the great work which, year by year is carried on by the Life-Boat service under the Royal...
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OCTOBER 23RD. - ABERDEEN. At 6.15 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at the request of the naval authorities to go to a vessel ten miles east of Aberdeen. A moderate southerly wind was blowing, the sea was...
The s.s. Clan Malcolm, of Glasgow, bound from London to the Clyde, ran ashore near the Lizard in a dense fog on the 26th September. She was carrying a crew of seventy-five. A moderate to fresh S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea....
By a strange coincide the Hungarian Minister in London was notified by his government on the day of the disaster at St. Ives of the awards which it had made to St. Ives for the service to the Alba in January, 1938. Though the Alba was...
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The start of last year's Sheffield Marathon which raised, mainly through the sponsorship of individual runners, a remarkable £24,000 for the RNLI. It is an annual event with some 6,000 entrants and Sheffield branch, together with... - View image in PDF
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About half-past 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the brigantine Burton, of Colchester, was entering the Tyne, rather too far north, close by another vessel to windward, which apparently took the wind from the sails of the...
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On 9th December, 1915, the s.s. Florence, of Stockton, whilst bound from London to Newcastle with a cargo of oil stranded on the "Middle Binks." It was a very dark night and blowing a strong gale, with a terrible sea running over...