Mrs Ruth Wadlow presents a cheque to Michael Ashley, district organising secretary, South London, at the Christmas Ball of the Court Laxton Tudor of the Independent Order of Foresters at Gravesend. The Court donated £850 to the RNLI,... - View image in PDF
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" AT 9 P.M. on the 18th of March, 1828, the boat belonging to the Venus Steam Packet, of Glasgow, William Brown, Commander, landed at Glynn, in the County of Wexford, with nine persons on board, including himself and one female ; and...
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THR Second Coxswain, who is also a harbour pilot, was put aboard with three men, and they tried to get the vessel* to the harbour, but the tide and wind set her into Dunwich Bight close to the shore ; at one time it looked like the barge...
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LAST year the Prince of Wales, as President of the Institution, issued a special appeal through the Press, for a generous response. This year he took a still more intimate part in the Day by visiting a number of depots, and personally...
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Above: Three generations Of boathouses at The Mumbles - the old ALB boathouse is in the right foreground with the new ILB boathouse in the centre and the current slipway station in the distance.. - View image in PDF
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SEATON CAREW, DURHAM.—The schooner | Cynthia, of Montrose, was being towed out of the Tees on the 5th April, 1871, when ' the tow-rope parting, she grounded on the North Gare Sandbank. A strong wind from the E.N.E. was blowing at the...
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coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...
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BUDEHAVEN, CORNWALL.—On the 31st of August, 1863, a large ship without masts, which afterwards proved to be the Conflict, an old sloop of war, of 2,000 tons, bound from Plymouth to Bristol, in ballast, to be broken up, was observed in tow of...
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Torbay: The crew from the cargo vessel Majorca are put ashore at Brixham. At 0430 on Saturday September 18, 1982, Majorca, 20 miles south east of Straight Point, sent out a may day call; she had a list of 5 degrees and her cargo was shifting... - View image in PDF
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(In the last issue of The Life-boat, in the account of the Inaugura Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat at Piel, a photograph of the old boat-house was reproduced in mistake for the new one.). - View image in PDF
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