New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1948, the Admiralty Salvage Officer tele- phoned that a man on the Queen's Fort, in the river Mersey, had been seriously injured. He asked for the life-boat and a...
NOVEMBER 15-25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.25 A.M. a message was received from the Haisboro’ coastguard that a trawler was ashore near the Haisboro’ Gap. A light southerly breeze was blowing and there was a heavy ground...
SINCE THE FORMATION of Spalding and District branch five years ago we have always spent the second weekend in May working very hard raising money for the RNLI at various stalls dotted around the route of the spectacular Spalding Flower...
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SOME day I hope to be able to give a | full account of all the doings of the' members of the Staff who have been, and are, serving in arms in the struggle in which we are engaged. It will prove interesting reading, for men who had been...
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52-01, Arun, prototype of her class, now stationed at Barry Dock. As soon as she was launched it was clear that here was the embodiment of new ideas.. - View image in PDF
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THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Stanley Smith, of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, who retired in August of this year, after twenty-seven years of service in the life-boat. He has been in it since the station was estab- lished in 1924. He...
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At 1 A.M. on the 1st November, a telephone message was received from the - Coastguard that a fishing vessel was making distress signals N.N.E. of the Look- out, close inshore. A strong W.N.W.
breeze was blowing with a heavy...
THE Institution has received the following gifts from its Crews : — On 23rd July, 1925, the Life-boat at Boulmer, Northumberland, went out to the s.s. Sojourner, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which had gone ashore in a dense...
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DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 1st January, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the Abertay lightvessel had fallen down the engine-room...