THE ELEVENTH RNLI national lottery was drawn at Poole HQ on January 30 by Mr P. H. Byrt, manager of Poole branch of Marks and Spencer, a company which has given considerable support to the lifeboat service in a number of ways. Poole lifeboat...
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Thursday, February llth, 1932.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— Mrs. Helen Davis, 100 £1 Preference shares in the Lady Workers'...
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FEBRUARY 24TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL. An unknown vessel had been torpedoed, but only wreckage was found.- Rewards, £15 11s. 6d.
AUGUST 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane had crashed, but her crew of two were rescued by a naval sloop. - Rewards, £3 16s..
On the 12th June the brig Ann, of Blyth, parted her cables in a S.E. gale, in Alnmouth Bay, and was driven ashore. The small four-oared self-righting life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was quickly launched in a heavy...
AN autograph collector recently asked Lieut.-General Sir A. E. Codrington, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., for his autograph, offering to send a small gift to any charity he named in return for it.
General Codrington, who is a subscriber...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 1.38 on the morning of the 1st of April, 1951, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned a message received through the North Foreland radio station from the S.S. Lord Citrine. She was...
Tynemouth, Northumberland, and Sunderland, Co. Durham.—18th February. An empty tug had broken away from a tow, but was picked up by a steamer.—• Rewards, Tynemouth, £22 3s. 6d.; Sunderland, £19 5s. 3d..
JUNE 3RD. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
An aeroplane had been reported down, but the life-boat could find nothing and later was recalled by wireless. - Rewards, £11 5s..
BULL BAY.—At 10 P.M. on the 9th May, a stiff breeze blowing from the E., the Guion Company's steamer Dakota, bound from Liverpool to New Tork, was reported to be ashore close in under the cliffs, inside the East Mouse. This vessel...