At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 27th day of March, 1897, The Eight Hon.
Gr. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord...
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THE Marconi system of wireless tele- graphy aMr. MARCONI is still engaged in further developing this part of his invention, and if he is able to overcome the liability of messages to get into wrong hands or to be otherwise interfered with,...
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It was the day when two of the RNLI's most significant projects crossed paths: the Institution's latest lifeboat was on trial at a unique new facility. Previously, the launching of a Tamar lifeboat on a slipway had only been...
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Eastbourne, Sussex. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker British Aviator and the motor vesselCrystalJewel, both of London, had been in collision eight...
Despite injury FAIRLIGHT COASTGUARD informed the Hastings deputy launching authority at 1120 on December 23, 1974, that there had been an explosion on board the Argentinian warship Candida de Lasala and medical help was needed. Maroons were...
'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...
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NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA, NORTHUMBER- LAND.—On the 1st July a gale from E.S.E. sprang up at about 4 A.M. Seven fishing cobles had left about four hours previously for the fishing-ground, which is about 15 miles from the shore, and considerable...
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By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
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Signals having been fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel, and flares having been shown in the direction of the South Scroby Sand at about 1.45 A.M. on the 18th of March, the No. 1 Life-boat, Mark Lane, put off during a fresh E. by S. wind...
On the 25th November, at about 7.15 A.M., the Ramsgate Life-boat and steameragain proceeded out in reply to signal guns fired from the Gull Light-ship. A large barque was seen to be ashore on the N.E. part of the Goodwin Sands, to which the...