Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The Birmingham No. 2 life-boat,...
Plymouth, Devon.—At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1957, a message was received that a vessel had broken down a mile and a half south of the breakwater. At 3.36 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Romse put out....
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THE motor life-boat which the Insti- tution has built for Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to take the place of the motor life-boat destroyed by fire while being overhauled at Cowes in June of last year, was named at the building yard of Messrs....
Category: Inaugurations
On the 28th Jan.
the schooner James, of Carnarvon, was wrecked near the bar of Drogheda Harbour, in a S.E. gale. The two Drogheda Life- boats launched to her assistance, and 1 man was rescued by the South boat, the John...
Coxswain JohnW. Gerrard, of the Blackpool life-boat Maria Noble. Appointed second coxswain in 1955, Coxswain Gerrard, who became coxswain in 1965, joined the crew in 1935. Since he joined the crew, Blackpool life-boats have been launched... - View image in PDF
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At daylight on the 20th Oct., signals of distress were observed from i this station, shown by the schooner Marie Boustead, of Nantes, which, with foremast and maintop-masts gone, was riding at anchor by one cable only on a rocky i lee shore....
JANUARY 17TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A steamer had been mined, but she could not be found, and later the naval authorities reported that she had sunk without any loss of life. - Rewards, £14 11s. 3d.
WITHIN the last few weeks we have received from the Board of Trade their annual Blue Book, furnishing in a tho- roughly comprehensive and intelligible form very full and detailed statistics of the shipping casualties "on or near"...
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