At about 11.30 A.M. on the 15th January the Coxswain was informed by fisher- men, who had just returned, that the local shrimping boat Jenny, with only one man on board, was flying a distress signal. In a moderate S. to S.W. gale, with a...
Dungeness, Kent.—In the early morn- ing of the 26th of May, 1950, in a thick fog, the S.S. Cabo Espartel, of Seville, bound for Valentia with a cargo of ammonia, collided with the S.S. Felspar, of Glasgow. About 3.49, just before she sank,...
The Chief Inspector of Life-boats, Lieut-Commander W. L. G. Dutton, R.D., R.N.R., greeting the Secretary General of the Norwegian Life-boat Institution, Capt. Olaf Bjb'rnstad, when the Norwegian rescue cruiser Ambassador Bay berthed at... - View image in PDF
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
A new life-boat to be presented to the Royal National Life-boat Institution by Birds Eye Foods Ltd. will be stationed at New Quay, Cardiganshire. The money for the new boat was produced through the Birds Eye 'Help Launch a Life-boat...
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Ix 1949 the Life-boat Service set up a new record. Its life-boats went out to the rescue 639 times. That is the largest number there has ever been in time of peace. In time of war it has been exceeded only thrice, in 1939, 1940 and 1941.<...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—Just after four in the afternoon of 21st October, 1939, a police inspector and ambulance men arrived at the life-boat station, and shortly afterwards a message was received from the coastguard that the...
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 293 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 300 Life-boat Stations...
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THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 280 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles