THIS is the story of the Blackpool Life- boat Band, which is very proud of being the only Life-boat Band in the world.
Blackpool was a very different place forty-two years ago from the popular seaside resort of to-day, and...
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PALLING, NORFOLK.—In response to signals of distress, during thick weather, a moderate breeze from the S.W., and a rough sea, the Life-boat British Workman was launched, at 8.30 A.M. on the 31st December, and proceeded to the Hasborongh Sand...
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
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THE death recently in Belfast of Mr.
Joseph Devlin, the Nationalist Member of Parliament, recalls a notable appeal which he made on one occasion at the annual meeting of the Belfast Branch of the Institution in the Belfast...
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SEPT. 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. The coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Wisp, of Shoreham, had capsized about one and a half miles to the southward of the harbour entrance. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rather...
ABERYSTWYTH.—On the 7th October, during the severe storm which worked wide devastation over a great portion of the United Kingdom, a vessel was seen to be labouring heavily and showing signals of distress, some two or three miles from the...
At 7.30 P.M. on the 31st March the cox- swain of the Life-boat Queen Victoria saw the trawler Mint, of Brixham, run ashore on the White Ledge. He at once put off in a boat to see if it were possible to get her off, but the westerly wind...
ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...
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