The old Blackpool pulling and sailing life-boat putting out.. - View image in PDF
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EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
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AT six o'clock in the morning on the 5th of December, 1947, the Bembridge motor life-boat, Jesse Lumb, went out to the help of a vessel firing signals of distress about four miles south-east of St. Catherine's Point. A gale was...
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YACHT FOUND ABANDONED AND ASHORE Hoylake, Cheshire. At 11.20 on the night of the 2nd June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near Hilbre Island, and at 12.6 the reserve life-boat Frank...
ENGLISHMEN do not, as a rule, realise the perishable and perishing nature of the land on which they live. Although more than fifty years have now elapsed since Sir Charles Lyell collected and emphasised the evidences which showed that the...
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SUNDERLAND.—At about 10 A.M. on the 22nd November, the fishing-boats Dotherel, British Defiance, Star in the East, and Hannah, were observed in distress about three miles S.E. of Sunderland during a strong E.S.E. wind and a rough sea. The...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1957, a telephone message was received that the 21-feet speed boat Sea Gipsy had broken down six miles south-south- east of the Casquets. At 8.50 the life-boat Euphrosyne...
Filey, Yorkshire - At 2.30 p.m. on 10th November, 1969, news was received that red flares had been sighted under Bempton cliffs. The life-boat Robert & Dorothy Hardcastle was launched at 2.41 in a fresh west south westerly wind with a...