Aldeburgh appeal to fund a 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat was launched two years ago by the then Mayor, Councillor J. M. Studd. On May 15 this year Aldeburgh's present Mayor, Mrs Barbara Brook presented to Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston... - View image in PDF
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WITHIN the last few weeks we have received from the Board of Trade their annual Blue Book, furnishing in a tho- roughly comprehensive and intelligible form very full and detailed statistics of the shipping casualties "on or near"...
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KILMORE, co. WEXFORD. — The schooner Antelope of Wexford stranded, during thick but moderate weather on the 6th May, about half a mile east of Bastardstown. Information of the casualty was received from the Coastguard at 3 A.M., and the crew...
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Rallying round Neil Parullo and Nairn Brown entered a 72-hour classic car rally from Land's End to John O'Groats and raised a total of £5,100 for Strathmore branch - making them the clear winners of the shield awarded to the car...
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Notes of the Quarter 183 Contents Lifeboat Services 185 Annaal General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 192 N limber 476 The naming of the 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Sir Max Aitken 197 Back in Business—Hunstanton, closed 1931: re-opened...
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
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On the 13th February, at 1.30 P.M., Coxswain Webster reported that seven cobles were at sea to the N.W. and that a strong wind, blowing from the E.S.E., would make it difficult for them to return. The Life-boat James Gowland was, therefore,...
Peel, and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—On the night of the 1st December, 1938, information from the coastguard was received at both life-boat stations that the tank steamer Pass of Ballater, of London, was in distress and needed tugs. A moderate...
BUDEHAVEN.—A new life-boat, on Mr PEAKE'S design, has been stationed at Budehaven on the north coast of Cornwall by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Her dimensions are, length 27 ft., beam...
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...