JULY 27TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
Two steamers had been in collision in the morning, one an oil tanker which had caught fire. Ten of her crew lost their lives. The other twenty-four had been rescued by another steamer. At 8...
APRIL 6TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
A vessel had been reported in distress but after the life-boat had left it was learnt that the report was incorrect, and that an aeroplane was down in the sea. But nothing was found. -...
J UNE 3 RD. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. It had been reported that two of the crew of three of an aeroplane had left their machine by parachute, three miles south of the watch-house, but a piece of parachute was all that could be found. News...
On 25th February, 1928, the Newburgh Lifeboat rescued' the crew, ten in number, of the steam trawler Isle of Wight, of Hull. Her owners, The Hull Steam Fishing and Ice Company, owning the Red Cross Fleet of trawlers, have become annual...
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Money-raising for the R.N.L.I, sometimes begins accidentally, as Mr. S.J. Roberts discovered at the Earls Court Radio Show in September. Mr, Roberts, a member of the Institution's staff, is also honorary secretary of the Gauge i Model...
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OCTOBER 29TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
During an air battle the coxswain saw a British aeroplane crash several miles W. by S. from Selsey Bill, and at 3 P.M. launched the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific. A moderate S.E. breeze...
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, on Friday, the 21st day of March, 1873, The Right Hon. SIR SYDNEY H. WATERLOW, Lord Mayor of London, in the Chair, the following Report of...
Category: Annual Reports
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
COXSWAIN DOUGLAS GRANT, of Selsey, and Coxswain Henry West, of Sheringham, have become the first two members of life-boat crews to receive gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.
This fund was established in 1955...
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Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel by Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 305.) tells in the first of two volumes the story of the English life- boats in those waters.
Of the life-boat stations detailed in...
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