DOCTOR TAKEN TO PANAMANIAN STEAMER Humber, Yorkshire. At 8.10 on the evening of the 17th May, 1963, the coxswain superintendent was informed that the s.s. GraneForsof Panama, anchored off Spurn, had a sick man on board who needed medical...
Opposite bottom: Green Lily crew members prepare to transfer to the lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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On the 2nd Jan., 1873, the Princess of Wales Life-boat at this station, in answer to signals of distress, proceeded to the brig Mystic, of Newport, which she leached shortly before midnight.
Previous efforts had been made...
Llantwit Major ladies' guild with Atlantic College held a May Ball which raised £2,500 for the Welsh lifeboat appeal. The event was held at St Donat's Castle and was attended by the Lord Lieutenant Sir Cennydd Traherne and Lady... - View image in PDF
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Johnson's experimental rotary unit outboard engine was shown by E. P. Barms.. - View image in PDF
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LYDD, DUNGENESS.—The crew of the Lifeboat R.A.O.B. were summoned on the 29th November, during a moderate N.
breeze and hazy weather, signals of distress having been reported. The men promptly assembled, and at 1 A.M.,...
On the 28th November the brig Davenport, of South Shields, was seen in a sinking state in Pake- field Gatway. The- Pakefield life-boat was at once launched; but before she could close with the vessel, the crew had taken to their long-boat,...
At 9.30 A.M.
on the 19th April the Coxswain of the Life-boat Maria Stephenson observed a small line fishing-boat about six miles to the northward of Buckie, with a signal of distress flying. At the time a whole off-shore...
The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at the time, with a...
LAST Christmas eleven branches arranged carol-singing parties. The majority were again in the South-East of England. Sussex had parties at East Grinstead, Bognor Regis and Cuckfield; Surrey at Dorking and Leatherhead; Kent at Westerham, and...
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