NORTH BERWICK - "This new building for the lifeboat crew, built on the site of a shop, fits remarkably well into the existing conservation area streetscape. Externally, traditional materials have been used to good effect Great care and... - View image in PDF
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Muck and brass: a pile of horse manure was donated to the Royal Tunbridge Wells and District branch and sold by the sack at a coffee morning held at the home of Mrs Joan Pearce, in the village of Front, Sussex. The event brought in the... - View image in PDF
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The relief Trent class lifeboat Corinne Whiteley, stationed in Whitby this Autumn while the town’s regular lifeboat was having a refit in Scotland, is pictured in near-gale conditions on 17 September.
In 5m breaking seas,...
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On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from the N.E. at the time. The...
The great orange case search...Red Bay's C class lifeboat was involved in an unusual incident last Autumn when she was involved in the hunt for four cases of oranges...
However, there was more than a little method to...
DECEMBER 2ND. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel three miles south-east of St. Ives Head had signalled that she was sinking. A moderate north-west wind was blowing, with a...
JANUARY 31ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 in the evening, the coastguard reported a boat showing distress signals a mile and a half north of Peterhead, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
On the 25th Sept., the schooner Airdrie, of Stranraer, was stranded on the Baldoyle Sands, in Dublin Bay, during a gale of wind. The same life-boat went off through a heavy and dangerous sea and rescued the crew of 4 men..
The Life - boat Charles and Eliza Laura was called out during moderate weather on the 23rd December, and stood by the steam- trawler Goosander, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the rocks at Dulas Island. The vessel was successfully...
On the 9th of February, 1953, six of the crew of seven of the Fraserburgh life-boat lost their lives when the life- boat capsized near the harbour entrance in a heavy sea. For a full account of this disaster see page 469..