CADGWITH, CORNWALL,.—Minute guns having been heard at 9 P.M. on the 20th of March, the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat was very promptly launched, four minutes only being occupied in getting her afloat, and proceeded to the S.W., in which...
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On the 12th April the sloop Richard and Elizabeth, of Portsmouth, coal laden, went ashore off Hasborough, on the Norfolk coast. The Life-boat stationed there, the Huddersfield, -was speedily launched through the breakers to her aid.
INTERESTING CEREMONY AT THE MANSION HOUSE, DUBLIN.
A VERY interesting ceremony took place on the 6th March last at the Mansion House, Dublin, when the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of that city made (at the request of Miss...
Category: Poetry
MARCH 14TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.46 A.M. four Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing ground. As the weather was threatening, two of the boats returned, but the other two began fishing.
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Again, on the 2nd Feb., the same boat performed, if possible, still more meri- torious service, in saving a crew of 4 men from the wreck of the Marie Emilie, of St. Louis. The seas were rolling clean over this wreck when the Life-boat was...
OWING to the great increase during the last few years in the work of organizing the Institution's appeals, it has been decided to divide the Midlands District, which up to the present has included Ireland and Wales. The Midlands...
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Three weeks after the visit of the Duke of Kent to the north east, Hartlepoois lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney The Scout and the At/antic 21 Guide Friendship III. and Teesmouth lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Sarah Jane and James Season, were once... - View image in PDF
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Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of April, 1950, the county police reported a message received from a returning fishing boat, that flares had been seen in Lune Deep about four miles west of Wyre Light.