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Recycling raises £185,000
You can do your bit for the planet while raising funds for the RNLI. Recycle your old mobile phones, printer cartridges and gadgets (such as satnavs and digital cameras) with The Recycling Factory, and the company will make a donation to the...
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Providentia, of Svelvig
Again, on the 24th March, the same life-boat went off to the rescue of the crew of the brig Prtmdentia, of Svelvig, near Drammen. In running for the harbour, during a gale of wind from the S.E., the vessel had struck on the rocks near the...
Sheerness: Cliff-fall teen returns with thanks
Four weeks after suffering spinal injuries falling 10m down a cliff on the Isle of Sheppey, 17-year-old
Logan Enfield called in to Sheerness Lifeboat Station to thank the crew who came to his rescue.
Logan, visiting...
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Florence Nightingale, of London
On the night of the llth June, in a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brig Florence Nightingale, of London, coal laden, stranded on the Sizewell Bank, near Thorpeness. A tar-barrel being burned, was seen from the shore, and the Thorpe life-boat...
Fleswick
Between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of 19th March the steamer Fleswick, of Liverpool, made signals of distress, having become disabled through her circulating pipe breaking. The Cadg- with Life-boat and...
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Fraserburgh
A DEPLORABLE accident, which resulted in the loss of two lives, occurred at Fraserburgh, on the 28th April. The Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left Buryhead the previous night, bound for Fraserburgh to be " demobilised," had an...
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The President of Iceland Mrs Vigdis Finnbogadottir With Coxswain/Mechanic Maurice Hutchens of Sennen Cove (C)
The President of Iceland, Mrs Vigdis Finnbogadottir, with Coxswain/Mechanic Maurice Hutchens of Sennen Cove (c) and Gunnar Thorsteinsson, captain of the Icelandic coaster Tungufoss. For the rescue of 11 men from Tungufoss last September, Mrs... - View image in PDF
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Ernest, of Ipswich
The same life-boat was also afloat on the 20th March, during a heavy gale from N.N.E., and was the means of bringing ashore the crew of 4 men of the distressed barge Earnest, of Ipswich, which after- wards stranded inside the...
Seventeenth of May
On the 3rd Feb., during an easterly gale, the Job Uindley Life-boat on this station was launched on observing the wreck of the Nor- wegian schooner Seventeenth of May, from which she was successful in saving 7 men..