— At 10.15 A.M. on 26th March it was re- ported by a fisherman that the motor coble Royal Empire, of Whitby, was in difficulties three miles N.E. by E. of Runswick and drifting before a strong S.E. gale with a heavy sea. The report was...
Miss Heather ('Mickie') Allen with the carved shield presented to her on behalf of Cowes Base by boat builder Steve Simmonds at the opening of The Allen Centre.. - View image in PDF
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In front of him are the Life-boatmen of Calais.. - View image in PDF
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Pour days afterwards the Life-boat was again called out on service, when the steamship Tripoli, of Glasgow, went oa the Tuskar Shoal, while the mad was blowing strongly from the North. The Wexford No. 2, and Camsore Life-boats both put off,...
At 12.45 P.M. on the 18th March two of the fishing-cobles belonging to Robin Hood's Bay, named the Emily and Eva and The Three Brothers, which had gone off earlier in the morning to fish, were in danger. Whilst fishing the wind and sea...
The Duke of Kent has accepted the Institution's invitation to become its next President. This was announced formally at the annual general meeting of the Governors of the Institution on 25th March (see page 618). The Duke of Kent thus... - View image in PDF
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Wreck FIRST SERVICE CALL for Fraserburgh lifeboat station, since it was reopened at the end of April, came at 1533 on Sunday June 3; it was to a Panamanian merchant vessel, Antonio, bound for Hamburg loaded with stone chips, which had run...
JULY 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 6 P.M. information was received from the Mersey Dock Board that a fishing vessel was ashore on Burbo Bank, west of the training wall. There was not sufficient water to get near the vessel, but she was...