THE LIFE-BOAT TKANSPORTING-CABRIAGE.
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on...
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NORTH DEAL. — The Life-boat Mary Somermlle was called out by signals fired by the Gull Light-vessel in a strong breeze to a moderate gale and a heavy sea at about 9 on the morning of the 2nd August, and proceeded to the...
A Survivor of the Dee Gypsy Being Brought Ashore. - View image in PDF
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Carol singers were out in force before Christmas. In the London area, members of the Mermaid Committee raised £40.41, and Frances Brace with a group of her friends from Forms 5 and 6 of Godolphin and Latymer School collected £93.46...
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" / have given all those fifty badges out, and now am wanting many more as I have more new members to give them to, and also many of the old workers are very anxious to join. .. .
I am quite sure that the Guild is a...
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Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.50 on the morning of the 12th of September, 1959, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the motor vessel San Blas of Stockholm was ill and needed medical...
WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...
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Margate, Kent. At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a body had been reported floating near the West Pan Sand buoy and a request was made for the life-boat to recover it....
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—The seafaring popu-ation of this place having expressed a de- sire to have a life-boat, not only for the sake of assisting the crows of distressed vessels, but also that they might bo on- ! abled to help pilot and...
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Penlee, Cornwall. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 2nd of February, 1959, the port medical officer told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Asia of Liverpool, which was then three miles south-south-west of Carn Du, was making for...