JULY 23RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A message had been received that a yacht was flying distress signals two miles off the Nore Light Vessel, but no yacht in distress could be found.-Rewards, £6 10s..
FRASERBURGH, Saturday October 18, 1986: this photograph, taken by Motor Mechanic Thomas Summers aboard the 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, City of Edinburgh, gives little impression of the 10ft swell, rough seas and gale force southerly wind which...
AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....
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SEPTEMBER 19TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A light and red flares had been reported, but they came from a cooker on a fishing boat. - Rewards, £14 8s..
NOVEMBER 12TH. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
A steamer had run ashore, but refloated.
- Rewards, £13 17s. 6d..
THURSDAY, 12th September, 1895.
Admiral Sir WILLIAM MONTAGU DOWELL, G.C.B., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and...
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WE are glad to be in a position to present to our readers our customary annual review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1913, in connexion with the...
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DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned. The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
Royal meeting Guest of honour at this year's annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall will be Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The ceremony takes place at 3.00 on the afternoon of Tuesday May 12, 1987, when the...
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