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Greek tragedy? Never could five members of the Redcar lifeboat station have imagined that their sailing holiday, 1,300 nautical miles from home, would turn into a life-saving rescue mission involving great skill and...
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Greater London.
Third Annual Royal Matinee at the Savoy Theatre. (See special report.) Conference of Branch representatives at Westminster City Hall. (See special report in last issue of The Lifeboat.) BALHAM.—Life-boat Day...
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SUNDERLAND.—The brig Prince Consort, of Faversham, was being towed to Sunderland in ballast when, on the 2nd September, the steam-tug ran ashore in a thick fog and was followed by the brig.
Signals of distress were...
OFF the Kentish coast there lie, Sands of treacherous make, Which swallow many a ship, Who luckless get in their wake.
They say that Earl Godwin made, A terrible curse upon Any ship that passed that way, Would come to grief...
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THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., C.B., IN THE CHAIR.
1. Annual Report.
Speaker— The Eight Hon. the EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., C.B.
Honorary Secretaries, Treasurers, and...
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— On the morning of the 8th January the cox- swain telephoned to the honorary secretary that the local motor fishing boat Streamlight had left harbour early in the morning in company with other fishing boats, but had not returned with...
Dover, Kent.—At 5.50 in the after- noon on the 10th of December, 1949, the life-boat bowman picked up a wireless message. It said that the trawler Holba, of London, with a crew of two, had been disabled when four miles south-west of...
Arbroath, Angus.—The local fishing fleet put out during the early morning of the 23rd November, 1938, in fine weather. Later on a S.E. wind sprang up and rapidly increased to gale force. The sea grew very rough, with heavy rain, sleet and...
NOVEMBER 24TH. - BARROW. LANCASHIRE.
At 9.10 in the morning the Port War Signal Station reported to the lifeboat coxswain that a small-vessel appeared to be in need of help about three miles off shore, east-south-east of...