RAMSGATE.—At about 2.20 A.M., on the 5th May, during a fresh wind from the N.N.W., signal guns and rockets were fired from' the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships. The Vulcan steam-tug and Life-boat Bradford were manned as quickly as...
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Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.45 P-m- °n 22nd December, 1965, a doctor on Eday Island told the honorary secretary that a three-year-old boy had been run over by a motor vehicle and had sustained a broken leg and head injuries, and had since...
PORT ISAAC.—On the 20th February, during a heavy gale from N.W., the barque Ada Melmore, of Maryport, was observed at anchor close in upon the rocks, near Port Quin, 4 miles from Port Isaac, with Signals of distress flying. About 9...
THE following is an extract from a letter received from a lady in Palermo, Buenos Aires: " The magazine is most interesting.I pass it on to a gentleman in the interesting.
camp, who sends it to other isolated...
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Launches 70 Lives rescued 107
AUGUST 3RD. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. In the afternoon the motor lifeboat Sir Heath Harrison had just returned from an exercise when a telephone message was received from a private...
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THURSDAY, 9th October, 1890.
Colonel FiTzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence,...
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JULY 20TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
News had been received from the coastguard that a trawler was in distress twenty-eight miles away, but she was picked up by a steamer.-Rewards, £16 10s..
Recruitment Activities This section of The Lifeboat is often used to describe the different ways in which new RNLI supporters are recruited and, as this year's marketing activities are about to start, it may be helpful to give an...
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BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...
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Crew Member John Dew of Torbay was one of two men who rescued two elderly people when fire broke out in a block of flats in Brixham last October.
He had seen the flames while driving home, went to investigate and helped...
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