REGISTER OF SHIPWRECKS ON THE COASTS
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NOVEMBER 23RD. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. The Norwegian steamer Ledual had gone ashore, but was refloated. - Rewards, £11 5s..
DECEMBER 10TH. - MOELFRE ANGLESEY. An unknown drifter had struck a mine, but the life-boat found only wreckage. - Rewards, £7 1s..
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An unknown bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £17 6s..
AUGUST 5TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but. nothing was found.- Rewards, £10 5s.
Readers might be interested in this picture of Minehead's first lifeboat, George Leicester.
In my connection with a rural museum, I was asked to print some pictures from glass negatives - among them I found this picture... - View image in PDF
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On the 15th February at about 5 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from W.8.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather with rain, the ketch R. T. B., of Bridgwater, laden with flour from Plymouth for Cardiff, was seen about two...
Sunset watch for the Margate lifeboatman, a memorial to nine men who lost their lives in the early morning of December 2, 1897, when Margate town surf boat Friend of All Nations capsized on her way to help the ship Persian Empire of West... - View image in PDF
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Portrush, Co. Antrim - At 2.54 p.m.
on 17th December, 1966, a body was seen 180 yards offshore. The life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4} launched at 3 o'clock in a west south westerly gale and a rough sea. The...
THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION VOL. XLI MARCH 1968 No. 423 CONTENTS PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN ..................... 2 NOTES OF THE...
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