Hammering away...
The RNLI's appeal for autographed items which can be auctioned to raise funds has already attracted an enthusiastic response.
Several hundred autographs have been received at...
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The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 989.
Of these, 18 went down with the Herdd, which sunk off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night, on 10th January; 83 in the...
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THE weather in the British Islands forces itself so much on our attention, and is naturally such a constant topic of dis- cussion, that papers on the subject, especially when written by any one having access to the records of the Royal...
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Re-count. . .
The letter from the honorary secretary of Bodmin and District branch, published in the autumn 1976 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, amused us all here in Trowbridge because the report closely followed our own flag day...
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IN the Yarmouth Mercury on 5th March last, under the heading " Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat's Fame in Australia," a letter was published "which had been received by a Gorleston man from his son in Australia. He...
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Again, on the 20th Aug., during a south- westerly gale, the Life-boat proceeded to the schooner Rapid, of Preston, which had a signal flying for assistance, her sails being torn, and her anchors not holding.
On arriving...
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — About 10.10 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a yacht was observed burning distress signals at Copeland Island, and information was received from the coastguards and police. At 10.35 the life-boat Sir...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 7.50 on the morning of the 31st of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht appeared to need help one and a half miles north-east-by- east of Peterhead, and five minutes later stated that she...
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — 10th September, 1939. Information had been received that a yacht was in difficulties on the North Bank and a small motor launch aground. Both vessels were on a lee shore, with a strong...
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribed wrist-watch and a framed letter of thanks to twelve-year-old Michael Dornom, of Salcombe, Devon, who saved the life of a seaman in a south- westerly gale on the 17th of September, 1950. The seaman...
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