Walton and Frinton: Tsunami at anchor south of Long Sand as Edian Courtauld approached. The wind was north east by north force 9, with heavy seas, the weather overcast with heavy rain squalls.
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The inside of the curragh, showing its ribs of hazel stick, with the bark still on, tied together with string and bits of line, and covered with calico and tar. Mr. McFadden and Mr. Carr both received the Institution's thanks on vellum... - View image in PDF
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A very thick fog having lifted somewhat about 10 o'clock in the morning of the 20th May, a steamer was sighted aground about half way to the outer part of the rocks off the pier. The No. 1 Life-boat, Robert and Mary Ellis, im- mediately...
Canter, Norfok. — At 7.40 in the morning of. the 15th of June, 1948, continuous short blasts on a steam whistle could be heard to the north-east, and five minutes later the Great Yar- mouth coastguard telephoned that a tanker was...
IT can scarcely fail to be interesting to such of our readers as take an interest in the subject of saving lives from shipwreck to know what is being done in furtherance of that humane object in other countries than our own. To learn how far...
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SEPTEMBER 29TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 5.59 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London, of over 7,000 tons, bound to Middlesbrough from Tangiers, was aground on the Goodwin Sands south...
FEBRUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 12.30 A.M. a message was received from the Teesmouth coastguard that the S.S. Baron Ruthven, of Glasgow, was ashore on the North Gare, and that a tug was standing by. Half an hour...