MARCH 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. While the lifeboat was out on a trial run an American Fortress aeroplane was seen to crash, but the life-boat found no survivors. - Rewards, £12 4s. 6d..
Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.25 p.m. on 4th January, 1966, the Tol Pedn coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen 10 miles south of Tol Pedn. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 6.38 on a moderate southerly...
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SIR,—As there have been so many changes of late years in all that is connected with sailors and ships, the loss of life at sea is a subject well worth considering during what may be termed the experimental period. The loss is not so great...
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Annual Meetings.
ALNWICK.—On 15th February, Canon Manby presided in the absence of the Chairman, Sir Francis E. Walker, Bt. The Treasurer's report for the year ended 30th September, 1922, which was carried, showed the...
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AN autograph collector recently asked Lieut.-General Sir A. E. Codrington, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., for his autograph, offering to send a small gift to any charity he named in return for it.
General Codrington, who is a subscriber...
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Top left: RAF Sea King salutes the tnvergordon lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith following her naming ceremony.. - View image in PDF
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HARTLEPOOL | 21 MARCH
Washed 20m out to sea and battered by a heavy swell, one angler owes his life to RNLI volunteers who were on exercise nearby. Hartlepool’s Atlantic 85 inshore lifeboat...
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Two volunteers from New Quay lifeboat station travelled 313 miles to Penlee in Cornwall on 7 November – to present a set of old cast-iron door handles. Mechanic Bernie Davies explains: ‘On reading on Facebook that someone had stolen the old...
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COASTGUARD, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH Flamborough, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs. A helicopter had landed on...