Stromness, Orkney.—On the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1957, a severe gale sprang up and anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Alice, which had not returned from the lobster fishing grounds off Hoy Head.
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Three of the crew and master (below) of the Medina D safely ashore after their rescue by Coxswain Catchpole and the crew of the Lowestoft Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft (Photos Eastern Daily Press). - View image in PDF
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MR. Duncan Darroch, a regular and most generous supporter of the Institu- tion in Mount Cook, New Zealand, who has a life-boat collecting box there which brings the Institution appreciable sums of money, recently sold one of his pictures to...
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All in mellow yellow - the ladies of Walton and Frinton lifeboat guild with their trophy.. - View image in PDF
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NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The schooner Braes of Moray, of Peterhead, was observed ashore on the Out Carrs rocks, at about 6 A.M., on the 26th November. The Life-boat William Hopkinson of Srighouse was at once got out, several of the...
PABSTOW, CORNWALL.—The coxswain of the Life-boat Albert Edward was informed at 9,30 P.M. on the 1st February, that a vessel was showing signals of distress.
The crew t>f the Life-boat were at once summoned, and proceeded...
At 6.30 P.M. on the 24th March during a S.S.W. gale, two fishing vessels, the Spes, of Brixham, and the Sialto, of Ramsgate, were wrecked at Newhaven. It was reported that a smack, whilst trying to make the harbour had struck to the eastward...
On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two hundred yards north of Southsea Castle.
A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life...