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The Three Sisters
A fear- ful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss of life. After a most...
SERVICES: RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS
WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west force 5 to 6 with rain...
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Rentokil
By Appointment to Hri M ii«ii jr TheQueni KM Control * Timber Vnriwi ft Produra An admittedly modest quid pro quo You save lives. We save buildings.
Including, we're pleased to say, many R.N.L.I. stations.
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
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Philip Weeks
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A Small Boat (1)
Walmer, Kent.—At 2.20 P.M. on 19th August, the Deal coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin light-vessel had reported a small boat, about one mile E.S.E. of the light-vessel, in urgent need of help. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
A Sailing Dinghy
Margate, Kent.—At 1.10 in the after- noon of the 29th of March, 1948, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, had capsized between one and two miles east of the life-boat station, and the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough—Civil...
Skaansund and a Yacht
ESCORT FOR YACHT AND TOWING VESSEL Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.36 on the morning of Saturday the 10th of August, 1963, the Lowestoft coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received via Gorleston coastguard that the...
A Norwegian Centenary
THE celebration of the centenary of the establishment of the first life-boat on the Norwegian coast took place at Stavanger on 22nd August, 1954. It was held at the time of the Annual General Meeting of the Norwegian Life-boat Society and...
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A Boat (2)
Hartlepool, Durham. At five o'clock on the morning of the 27th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had been seen drifting about three miles east- south-east of Hartlepool. Nobody could be seen...