DECEMBER 16TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. A motor vessel which had broken down was able to carry out repairs and to come in without help. The owners made a gift to the Institution. - Rewards, £14 18s. 6d.
JANUARY 15TH- HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. Distress signals had been reported, thought to be from an enemy aeroplane which had come down after being hit during an attack on shipping, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £18 2s.
MARCH 11TH. - ARBROATH, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. An R.N.A.S. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found except two wheels, one by the Arbroath life-boat and one by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards : Arbroath, £16...
Four weeks after suffering spinal injuries falling 10m down a cliff on the Isle of Sheppey, 17-year-old
Logan Enfield called in to Sheerness Lifeboat Station to thank the crew who came to his rescue.
Logan, visiting...
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Greater London.
ANNUAL Meeting of the London members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and Life-boat Day organizers, Lady Dorothy D'Oyly Carte, Chairman of the Central London Women's Committee of the Guild,...
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SWANSEA.—The Harbour Commissioners at Swansea having transferred their life-boat establishment to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, it has been completely renovated ; a new 10-oared boat and transporting carriage has been placed there, and...
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1963 Kt 311,782 562 67,171 18,851 250 56,924 21,060 5,016 3,932 86,932 3,831 83,101 481,717 11,058 1,189 24,448 2,439 3.83I 42,965 39,602 33,883 73,485 75,918 2,409 12,716 61,666 3,522 1,546 81,859 46,827 8,632 409 55,868 811,812...
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AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
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Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, and Don- aghadee, Co. Down.—25th February.
A steamer stranded, but of the people on board some were taken off by another vessel and others reached the shore over the rocks.—Rewards, Port- patrick,...
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—29th October, 1937. A fishing boat had broken down in a calm sea, but a rowing boat was found standing by her. The life-boat returned towing the fishing boat.—Rewards, £8 17s..