CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
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THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...
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" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.
'•What, sir...
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FEBRUARY MEETING IN ERKEITHING, FIFESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 9th January, 1940, the S.S.
Elizabeth Bromley was taken from harbour to an anchorage four hundred yards out, in readiness to sail in the morning. The...
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Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...
At 8 A.M.
on the 12th February the Coastguard reported a barge at anchor near the South East Buxey Sand, with her fore- mast and head gear carried away, but there was no signal indicating that help was required. The barge...
On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Augusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of Bristol" j...
PADSTOW.—The Albert Edward Lifeboat put off during a strong gale from the N.W., arid a very heavy sea, and with great difficulty rescued the crew, consist- ing of four men, from the schooner Favorite, of Quimper, which had lost her sails and...
It's a dog's life...
...for Molly When the crew of Walmer's D class inflatable lifeboat received a report from Dover Coastguard that a dog had fallen some 150ft over a cliff about three miles from the station...
IB it worth while to work for others ? Is it worth something to save life ? As the day broke, one fearfully stormy morning, a large barque ran on a bank of sand, eight miles from the British coast, and lay there at the mercy of the tempest,...
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