IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
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Filey, Yorkshire.—As darkness was gathering on the evening of the 26th of September, 1949, there was some anxiety felt for the safety of the fishing coble Mary which, with a crew of three, had been due in at noon. At 7.25 the life-boat The...
TO THE HAVEN Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 10.30 a.m. on 4th November, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
At n o'clock the...
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CORK. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless S O S call from the S.S. Vancouver City, of Bideford. She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons and had been...
Hoylake, Cheshire, and Rhyl, Flintshire - At 9.25 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the shipping agent to the m.v. Bierum informed the Rhyl honorary secretary that the vessel had gone aground a quarter of a mile east of Point of Air...
Lifeboat station histories Wick Lifeboat by Ian Cassells published by Cluny Publishers at £3.50 Subtitled '150 Years of Tireless Service' this A5-size softback is a full and informative history of the saving of life at sea in...
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THE important and interesting question as to whether or not our Coast Lights should be exhibited free of charge to the shipping of all .nations has been recently discussed in the House of Commons. It is an important question, seeing that the...
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Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 16th August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a girl who had been bathing off Inverallochy sands had been swept out to sea and was in difficulties.
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LIST OF OFFICERS.
PRESIDENT- Capt. H.E.H. The DUKE OF YORK, R.N., K.G.
PRESIDENT OF THE LADIES' AUXILIARIES—H.R.H. The DUCHESS or YORK.
CENTRAL COMMITTEE- Sir EDWARD...
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