IN the early hours of the 8th of December, 1959, the Broughty Ferry life-boat Mona was launched on receipt of a message that the North Carr lightvessel had broken adrift. Some time between 5.15 and 6.00 in the morning the life- boat capsized...
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THE Hundred and Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 17th April, at 3 p.m.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
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Wbitby, Yorkshire.—During the after- noon of the 13th of May, 1951, the local motor fishing boat Lead Us put out in a strong northerly wind and a heavy swell which made the harbour bar dangerous for her return. The life-boat crew assembled...
The full strength of the Atlantic seems now devoted to the destruction of the frail craft yet rocking on the submerged reef at the mouth of the Channel. The waves rush thunderingly to the attack like squadrons of heavy cavalry. They have...
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Mrs Hale, 84 years old and almost blind, nevertheless made this lovely crochet bedspread of 360 separate squares. Raffled at a small function it raised £50 for Ware branch.
With Mrs Hale is Pop David, aged 87, a... - View image in PDF
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Meet some of the people who are getting our new lifesaving services off the ground
Portishead lifeboat has been running as an independent rescue service since The...
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Humber, Yorkshire.—At 1.50 P.M.
on the 21st October, 1937, during a lift in a dense fog, a vessel was seen to run hard aground on the beach near the life-boat house. The wind was light and the sea slight. The motor...
The prototype Severn class Loa 17m (55ft 9in) Beam 5.5m (18ft) Draft 1.68m (5ft 6in) Displacement 37.5 tonnes Speed 25 knots. - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.8 early on the morning of the 20th of March, 1953, the Gorles- ton coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Briardene, of Sunderland, had collided with the S. S. Roine, of Helsi...
GOBLESTON. — On the 1st January, 1895, the steamers Sent, of London, and Kirkstall, of Shields, which had been detained in the roadstead by stress of weather, ran short of provisions and each sent a boat ashore to obtain supplies. A moderate...
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