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Harnser
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties off Hopton Bank. At 1.10 the life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the...
Ros Airgead
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 17th of November, 1959, a message was received from Valentia radio that the trawler Ros Airgead of Dublin was drifting with a trawl foul of her propeller seven miles west of Bray Head. At...
The S.S. Welsh Prince
WESTON-SUPER-MARE. — As the S.S. Welsh Prince, of Newport, was leaving the pier at Weston-Super-Mare for Bristol, at 6.30 on the evening of the 22nd September, with upwards of forty passengers on board, and a crew of six men, a hawser by...
A Shipwreck. The Life-Boat Service
WE have extracted the following account of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL.
The incidents...
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Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1949 and January and February, 1950. 112 Lives Rescued
DURING December life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 19 lives.
THE MEN FROM THE PRU Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which...
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Opening the New Life-Boat House at Cullercoats
FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
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An Aeroplane (16)
SEPT. 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT. At 9.29P.M. the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the Dungeness lifeboat...
Resolute
Hastings, Sussex. At 1.4 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the Hastings and St.
Leonards sailing club that a large yacht had reported to their rescue boat that a...
Almeco (1)
Barge aground THE STATION HONORARY SECRETARY Of Mablethorpe lifeboat station was informed by Humber Coastguard at 1030 on Tuesday October 12, 1982, that the barge Almeco had grounded overnight.
An attempt was to be made to...