OCTOBER 18TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A naval motor boat had broken down, but the life-boat could not find her and she reached Fishguard unaided. - Rewards, £12 12s..
TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.
SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...
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The Beach Rescue tna scheme showed off its first ever beach lifeguards at two photocells on Friday 25 May.
Lifeguards were put through their paces at two locations - Fistral beach at Newquay in Cornwall and Sandbanks beach...
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The steamer Langton Grange, of London, a vessel of upwards of nine thousand tons register, belonging to the Houlder Line, stranded during a dense fog on the 5th August on the North Bishop Rocks.
Her signals of distress were...
THE new Motor Life-boat for Longhope, in the Orkneys, which is one of the 45 feet 6 inches Watson (cabin) type, with two 40 h.p. engines, left Cowes for her station at nine at night on the 4th January. She reached Ramsgate just before one in...
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WHEN I TOOK my leave of the lifeboat service on December 31, 1973, it was after 21J years service as divisional inspector and superintendent of the Depot. At the age of 32 years I was serving as a lieutenant on the teaching staff of the...
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Sir, is this a record? We have just completed Teignmouth flag week. Between 1.00 pm on Monday July 9 and 11.00 pmm on Saturday July 14, Terry Trebilcock (seen helping me with the final emptying of the box) and his wife Sue, the licencees of... - View image in PDF
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IN the article "A Life-boat Christmas," in the last issue of the Journal, it should have been recorded among the visits of life-boats to lightvessels, that the Walton and Frinton boat also went out and took Christmas gifts to the...
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