The N.N.E. gale of the 12th January blew with unusual violence at Fishguard, and at 6.30 A.M. signals of distress were made by the s.s. Dynamo, of Hull, in the bay. The Life-boat Charterhouse was launched, but she was delayed for some little...
At about midnight on 15-16th February the steam trawler Jeanne, of Ostend, struck the Keldar Steel, an outlying reef near Kettleness, while bound home, with a cargo of fish, from the fishing grounds.
She carried a crew of...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.35 on the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor mechanic heard a distress message on his wireless set from the tug Rumania. The tug said that she was aground on the Long Sand and needed help. At...
The R.N.L.I's charter does not make provision for the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and the National Lifeboat Museum Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charity for this...
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The E.S.E. gale of the 30th and 31st January caused several disasters in the vicinity of Ramsgate, and the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens had not returned very long from a fruitless journey when she was called out again.
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Inaugural Ceremony by the Prince of Wales, K.G.
THE PRINCE or WALES, as President of the Institution, on 10th July named the new Dover Motor Life-boat Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institu- tion.
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PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ullen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush on the 28th Feb., 1891.
On the 2nd March, a gale...
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SEVEN LIFE-BOATMEN LOST AT ST. IVES JAN. 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Three minutes before two in the morning, the honorary secretary was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a...
DEC. 8TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.32 A.M. a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that a Belgian steamer had stranded on the Goodwin Sands, north of the wreck of the Mahratta.
A whole S.S.W....
MARGATE, KENT.—On the evening of 20th February the Coxswain was in- formed by telephone from the Coast- guard Lookout that lights had been seen at sea. A few minutes later more lights and a rocket were seen in the direction of the Tongue...
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