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APRIL 22ND. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M.
the motor life-boat...
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Category: Advertisement
Busiest Day In the History of the Life-Boat Service
BETWEEN the late evening of Saturday, the 28th of July, and Sunday, the 29th of July, the Life-boat Service ex- perienced the busiest day in its entire history.
During most of the month of July the weather had been bad and...
Category: Services
News from the Branches. 1st August to 31st October, 1939
1st August to 31st October, 1939.
Greater London.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drives.
COVENT GARDEN.—The branch has suffered a serious loss by the death of Mr.
Bert Monro, who had...
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 65. Lives rescued 43.
Februar- eeting.
Rossi "--• „ Co. Wexford.—On the 20th uoer, 1938, the crew of four of the motor schooner M....
Category: Services
A Pleasure Cruiser
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.30 p.m. on i8th September, 1965, the IRB launched to go to the assistance of a person on board a pleasure cruiser which had grounded at Breydon Water the previous day. There was a fresh gusting to...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday, the 26th day of April, 1855, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frin- ton, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1961, an antici- patory message was received at Clacton from the coastguard that two men in a local rowing boat were overdue. They had set out...
High Seas...
llfracombe - South Division More vie A/s of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
llfracombe. on the north Devon coast, is seen from the west in this view, taken towards high water. The Inner Harbour dries completely at low...
Category: Articles
Trouble on the Trap
The following account by Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N.(Retd. editor ofMotor Boat and Yachting, appeared in the edition for i8th September, 1964, and is reproduced with his kind permission. He is a former member of the Longhope life-boat crew...
Category: Articles