When the Mayor of Poole, Councillor J. M. Norman, performed the opening ceremony of the RNLI depot at Poole on May 27, the Institution was also entertaining visitors from La Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer. (I. to r.) John Atterton,... - View image in PDF
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IN the Life-boat Journal, No. 11, we gave as one reason for the discontinuance of the register of shipwrecks, on the coasts of the United Kingdom, which we had previously inserted, that a Wreck Register was being compiled at the Admiralty...
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RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...
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FRASERBURGH, N.B.—About 9.30 P.M. on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
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BLYTH, NORTHIFMBEBLAND. — On the 21st July a strong wind sprang up from the E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, and several of the Newbiggin fishing boats were compelled to leave Newbiggin Bay and run to Blyth Harbour for...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 12.43 on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the Arklow lightvessel wirelessed that her tender Willie Wag, of Arklow, with a crew of four, had broken down after leaving the lightvessel. This message was heard...
Walmer, Kent - At 3.45 p.m. on 2yth December, 1966, a large steamer was thought to be aground near the B.I.
buoy on the Brake Sands. Visibility was poor and the vessel was just visible. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
The White Rose of Yorkshire (right), escorted by the D class inflatable lifeboat, the Duke of Kent flew north to Staithes where he watched a demonstration launch and crash net recovery of the Atlantic 21 lifeboat. After visiting Redcar he... - View image in PDF
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Injured crew DURING THE AFTERNOON of Friday OctOber 9, 1981, the 38,000 ton Danish container vessel Dragor Maersk, on passage from Hamburg to Port Said, told east coast radio stations that a crew member with a fractured hip needed to be...
THE EARL OF HOME LIEUT.-COL. THE EARL OF HOME died on the llth of July, 1951, at the age of 77. He had been a vice-president of the Institution since 1923. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Scottish Life-boat"...
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