The Institution has received his annual subscription from a subscriber who has contributed to it since his father died 25 years ago. The father, in turn, had contributed since his father died in 1881, and the books of the Insti-- tution show...
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On the llth Janu- ary the schooner Laurel, of Goole, came on shore, during a strong wind and heavy sea.
The Parsee life-boat, which was immediately launched, succeeded in saving the crew of 3 ...
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of Courtmacsherry Bay. A whole north-west gale was...
On 7th September, the Swedish steamer Kalix, of Stockholm, on her way from Norvic to Middlesbrough,stranded near Teesmouth. She was badly damaged; one of her holds was full of water, and her crew got ready to abandon her. When the Teesmouth...
Presentation of North Sunderland station branch's 150th anniversary vellum was made last November by the Duke of Northumberland (r. of vellum) at a gathering of crew, branch and guild members at Hamburgh Castle Hotel, Seahouses. The... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 21ST. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 2.30 in the morning the life-boat coxswain was out fishing and saw the schooner Trinite', of Gothenburg, ashore on the west point of Brims Ness. She made distress signals, and...
On the morning of the 15th February, during a mode- rate northerly breeze, with a heavy ground sea, a steamer was reported ashore about one mile N.W. of Donna Nook, flying signals of distress. The Life-boat was launched, and when she reached...
On the 25th October, the brigantine Francis, of Shields, was totally wrecked, and afterwards sunk on the Cockle Sands during a strong W.N.W. wind, and in a heavy sea. The Mark Lane life-boat went out and brought safely ashore the...
About £.3,000 was raised for the RNLI by the pro-am golf tournament at Notts Golf Club, May 29. Last team to tee off was Hugh Baiocchi and Duncan Lee (left) and Dr David Marsh and Henry Cooper (right).. - View image in PDF
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On the 7th April, 1869, the Arthur Frederick FitzRoy life-boat, on this station, went off to the barque Columbia, of Stavanger, which, during a high wind and dense fog, had run ashore opposite the life- boat house, soon after midnight. The...