DURING June life-boats went out on service 39 times and rescued 27 lives.
HOPE FOR THE FISH HARVEST Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing...
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THE Wreck Register for 1871 was issued by the Board of Trade on Oct. 14, and is, as usual, a very complete and ex-haustive document. It is supplemented, in the usual way, by most interesting charts, which have greatly helped us to analyze...
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On the 30th March, at 5.15 A.M., in reply to signals of distress the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeded to the East Goodwin Lightship and found that she had been run into by a schooner, and had one of the vessel's crew on...
SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...
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THE editor of The Life-boat will always be glad to receive from its readers anything which they think it would be of interest to publish concerning the present or the past of the life-boat service..
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Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's life-boat named Joybell, on a pleasure fishing trip to Les Minquiers.
They did not return when expected and some anxiety was felt. Next...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1957, the coxswain was told that a small boat was in difficulties close inshore near the Hartlepool breakwater. He went out in the pilot cutter to in- vestigate, but...
NOVEMBER 28TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the motor life-boat J. W. Archer was out on exercise.
She saw the tug Charing Cross, with two empty hoppers in tow, enter the Tees, and the...
1st April to 30th June.
Greater London.
ACTON AND CHISWICK (MIDDLESEX).
—Annual Meeting on llth April.
Speakers : The Mayor and the District Organizing Secretary....
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Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...
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