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The Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society Is Interested In the Past and the Present. This Fine Photograph, Typical of the Kind of Pictures Which Members Bring to Light, Shows the Dickinson Edleston Life-Bo
The Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is interested in the past and the present. This fine photograph, typical of the kind of pictures which members bring to light, shows the Dickinson Edleston life-boat which was stationed at Longhope,... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. New Verdun
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At about 6 A.M. on the 29th January, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel in distress and burning flares N.E. of House Sand Fort. She was the s.s. New Verdun,of Plymouth, bound from Middlesbrough for Portsmouth...
The Bar Lightship
During a moderate N.N.E. gale on the night of 30th September, the Bar light-ship broke loose from her moorings and commenced to drift towards the banks. Her position was one of considerable danger, and signals of distress attracted the...
The Mystery Lifeboat...
Continued from page 95 The Mystery Lifeboat...
... the photographs are of Lynmouth, North Devon.
I think they must have been taken about 1925-26. Asa youngster I went with my parents for a week every... - View image in PDF
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Peggy, If, and Billy Boy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 1.30 P.M. on the 4th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boats Peggy, If, and Billy Boy, carrying seven men altogether, were making heavy weather three miles south of...
The 'Loony Dook'
Over 40 hardy swimmers walked througth the streets of South Queensferry, led by a pipe band for the 11th annual 'Loony Dook' - swimming in the Firth of Forth on the 1 January-. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Commar
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 6.46 A.M. on the llth October, 1939, the Gorleston coastguard reported a message received from Yarmouth that a vessel had apparently grounded on the Scroby Sands. A light S.W. wind...
The S.S. Mathilda
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 12th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had warned off a vessel in a dangerous position one and a half miles south by west of the Goodwin Lightvessel, and at...
Entrance to the House of the Institution
ENTRANCE TO THE HOUSE OF THE INSTITUTION. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Lancashire
At about noon on the 3rd April the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a steamer appeared to be unmanageable.
Later she stranded on Spurn Point.
She was the s.s. Lancashire, of Sunder- land,...