SEAHAM, DURHAM.—Towards midnight on the 31st Dec., 1898, signals of distress at sea were observed off this place, and when the New Year broke, the Life-boat SJcynner was on her way to render help to the vessel which had displayed them. The...
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The Largest Number of Launches for Fourteen Years.
Nineteen-THIRTY-FOUR, like 1933, will be remembered for its long and brilliant summer. In spite of this it was a year of great life-boat activity. The number of launches...
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Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.20 •early on the morning of the 17th of .September, 1958, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore below Tynemouth •Castle, fifty yards north of Tyne north pier. Visibility was...
DAILY EXPRESS N R N A I O N A Sttiw 23rd MARCH-lst APRIL J989 Following its highly successful debut in Plymouth, the Daily Express Test of England Boat Show be moved to the Bristol Exhibition Centre in order to expand the marker for...
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FOR years past the Montrose life-boat crews, by their readiness at all times to proceed to sea to the rescue of the wrecked, and the success which has at all times attended their labours, have earned for Montrose the reputation of being, so...
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THE small fishing-village of Cresswell, in Northumberland, lies about twenty miles north of the mouth of the Tyne.
It is not easy of access to visitors, for the nearest railway station on the main line, between Newcastle...
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Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 6.35 on the evening of the 6th of March, 1956, the watchman in the navigation barge which is moored off Lytham rang up to say that he had received a message that the S.S. Monita, of Stockholm, at anchor...