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From the Foreign Life-Boat Societies. The Use of Oil on a Heavy Sea
THE annual report of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society for 1926 contains the following account of an arduous service by the new Motor Life-boat Brandaris stationed at Terschelling: " On receipt of a communication from the...
Category: Articles
Gifts from Life-Boat Crews
THE Institution has recently received gifts from four of its Crews out of sums which they themselves have received for the salving of vessels: from the Aldeburgh No. 2 crew, which saved the Norwegian whaler Chr. Crastberg, of Sandefjord, on...
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JANUARY MEETING NAIRN, MORAYSHIRE. About 11.15 on the night of the 13th of November, 1945, an R.A.F. Warwick aeroplane was seen by the Lossiemouth coastguard to crash in the sea in flames, six to eight miles in a north-easterly direction...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—27th September, 1938. Very lights had been reported near the Hanois Lighthouse, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £9 Is..
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Newquay, Cornwall. At 10.35 p.m.
on 4th July, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that one of two men being pursued by the police had run into the sea at Crantock and was swimming towards West Pentere. At 10.40 the IRB...
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JULY 21ST. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Distress signals had been reported between Stroma and Pentland Skerries, but the life-boat could find nothing.-Rewards, £9 11s..
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JANUARY 28TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A heavy explosion had been heard to the north of the Life-boat Station, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £32 19s..
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MAY 26TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A boy had fallen over the cliff at Berry Head and was too badly injured to be hauled up, but before the life-boat could reach the scene a passing tug had been signalled, had put in to shore and had taken the boy on...