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A helping hand for flood rescue
A hardware firm that has put firm support behind the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) is on course to raise £80,000 this year.
Toolstation is the FRT’s sponsor, and staff have been boosting funding for the team’s...
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Aid
BLAKENEY.—During a gale from the northward, on the 21st February, the ketch Aid, of Hull, bound from Barton to London, was observed riding heavily at her anchors, 4 miles from Blakeney, with a signal of distress flying. The tide being out,...
Prospect
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—On the 26th December, the smack Prospect, of this place, came into the bay before daybreak, and as the sea in the roadstead was heavy at the time, her anchor was dropped butdid not hold; the waves then drove the vessel in...
Alabama
On the 7th November, the No. 1 Lifeboat Mark Lane was launched at about 5.15 A.M., signals of distress having been seen during a moderate gale, increasing at intervals to a strong gale, from the E.S.E., and a very heavy sea. After a long...
Polynesia
Information having been given to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel had been seen ashore off Beachy Head, during a strong W.S.W. breeze, a heavy sea, and a thick fog on the 24th April, the Lifeboat Michael Henry was launched at...
Fishing Boats (2)
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
Alexandra
The steam trawler Alexandra, whilst bound from Iceland to Boulogne with a cargo of fish, ran on to the rocks about three quarters of a mile N.W. of Skinningrove jetty, during a very thick fog on the 13th June. Information of the casualty was...
The S.S. Holdernore
LANDING INJURED MEN Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.30 in the morning of Christmas Day, 1947, the Hartland Point coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Holder- nore, of Hull, that she wanted to land injured men. With a doctor on board...
The S.S. Beltoy
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 24th of February, 1949, the medical officer reported that a wireless message had been received from the S.S. Beltoy, of Larne, lying off Keiss Harbour, Sinclair Bay, that her...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 5.35 on the evening of the 21st of February, I960, the office of the Commissioners of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the Coningbeg lightvessel was suffering from blood...