(above) Satisfied that the lire is out firefighters disembark from Paris ready for their six-mile trip to Margate aboard the station's Mersey. - View image in PDF
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JAN. 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. The steam trawler Imbrin, of La Rochelle, had stranded on the Haisborough Sands, but got off without help.-Rewards, £29 6s. 6d..
JAN. 22ND. - ABERDEEN. A small boat had been reported capsized at the mouth of the River Don, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..
MCH. 18TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. A motor boat had been reported in distress off the Old Head of Kinsale, but she made safety while the lifeboat was searching for her.-Rewards,.
APRIL 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.30 A.M. anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...
AUG. 5TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. During the evening a doctor asked for the life-boat to take a woman to Oban, to be sent thence to the Maternity Hospital, Glasgow. No steamer was available and he was afraid that she would bleed to...
JANUARY 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and at 2.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that some small fishing boats were still at sea. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
FEBRUARY 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 3.50 P . M . the coastguard reported a British aeroplane in difficulties, and a few minutes later the news came that the aeroplane was down in the sea. Her position was given at...
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A steamer had gone aground on the Mersey revetment, but refloated with the help of tugs. - Rewards, £6 18s..
MARCH 11TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. The Greek steamer Niritos, of Ithaca, had struck a mine E.N.E. of the North Goodwin Lightvessel, but her crew were rescued by another steamer. - Rewards, £8 15s. 6d..