St. Peter Port, Guernsey: and Torbay, Devon.—At 5.40 in the evening of the 4th of August, 1950, it was reported to the St. Peter Port life-boat authorities that the S.S. Charlotte Schroder, of Hamburg, had had a boiler explosion, severely...
THE first life-boat to be fitted with diesel engines was completed in 1936, and since 1952 diesel engines have been installed in all new life-boats. Never- theless, there are still an appreciable number of life-boats in the fleet which have...
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The Minister for Transport and Power in the Irish Republic, Mr. Brian Lenihan, has decided to make a payment to the Institution of an annual grant of £10,000 towards the cost of operating the life-boat services in the Irish Republic. In...
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Members of the top form of Kensington High School visit Whits table ILB station.
The school had just raised £1,000 from its summer carnival, the proceeds being shared between Kensington branch and its station... - View image in PDF
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Family life at Spurn Head so far from civilisation is very important and the children are constantly remembered. Here Father Christmas arrives with gifts greeted hy some of the youngsters.
by courtesy of 'Yorkshire... - View image in PDF
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THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy gales on Christmas night and the following day. During the seven days of the Christmas week, from 21st December to 27th December,...
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Nov. 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.35 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that signals for a doctor had been made by the S.S. Roxby, of West Hartlepool, anchored in the Downs. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.10 early on the morning of the 4th of January, 1957. the coastguard telephoned to say that the Trinity House Superintendent at Swansea had asked for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick man from the Helwick...
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...
The Lizard and Falmouth, Cornwall.—• At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1956, the Lizard coast- guard reported that the raft L'Egare II needed the help of a life-boat about thirty miles south-west of Lizard Head, and that...