ON August 16th, a Centenary Demon- stration was to be held at Whitby, the Motor Life-boat and one of the Pulling and Sailing Life-boats to be launched, and an exhibition of Life-boat models to be held in the Life-boat House, but it was...
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20th August. A trawler stranded but got off unaided.
—Rewards, £9 11s. &d..
llth October. A trawler stranded but refloated as the tide 'rose.—Rewards, £4 15s..
25th July. A steam drifter stranded near Duncansby Head, but was helped by another drifter.—Rewards, £4 19s. Qd..
15th June. A steamer ran ashore on North Bank, but refloated without help.—Rewards, £8 18s..
22nd April. A speed- boat broke down, but was towed to Torquay by another speed-boat.— Rewards, £9 13s.
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—10th March, 1939. A fishing boat had gone ashore, but she refloated unaided.—Rewards, £17 105..
THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.
A member of the Institution's staff was recently...
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Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.15 in the evening, on the 13th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that three menin a rubber dinghy were drifting sea- wards off Ty-Croes. At 5.25 the life- boat A.E.D. was launched in a calm sea with a light...
Dover, Kent - At 4.50 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, a man was seen waving a white flag in a small boat about three quarters of a mile off the coast midway between Dover and Folkestone. The lifeboat Southern Africa left her moorings at 5.23. It...