Mersey class lifeboat Margaret Jean enters the water for the first time after her official naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
Photo Gilbert Hampton Photography. - View image in PDF
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matters connected with the sea must necessarily be of deep interest to the population of a great maritime nation such as ours, dependent to so great an extent, even for the common necessaries of life, on those that " go down to the sea...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— During the morning of the llth June, 1938, the three-masted motor schooner Agnes Craig, of Dublin, ran aground on the N.W. side of Blackwater Bank, about fourteen miles from Rosslare Harbour.
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1956, the Kirkwall coastguard reported that a Norwegian fishing vessel was ashore on Yasa Skerry and that another in attempting to help her had also run aground. The life-boat...
OCTOBER 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About 12.30 P.M. a very loud explosion was heard. It came from the Trinity House vessel Reculver. She had struck a mine. An easterly breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City of...
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth. At 3.10 the motor life-boat John and Mary...
Mr. John Nott, M.P. for St. Ives, has received a letter from the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. Harold Lever, stating that the service rewards made to members of life-boats crews will continue to be subject to income...
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THE year 1929 was remarkable for the series of intense gales in its last three months, following on an autumn of prolonged drought. The gales are de- scribed on another page. Here it is sufficient to say that during the ninety- two days of...
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Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 2.30 P.M.
on the 25th June, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that the motor coble Ben My Chree, with two men on board, was then two and a half miles N.E. of Heugh. With a northerly...
Lives rescued by life-boats Lives rescued by inshore rescue boats Lives rescued in other ways for whose rescue the Institution gave rewards Total lives rescued 354 10 224 588 People landed by life-boats and inshore rescue boats from...
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