On the 2nd Decem- ber, the brig Prodroma, of Stockton, was driven ashore on the North Gare Sand, near the entrance of the river Tees. On the intelligence being conveyed to Middles- borough, the Institution's life-boat stationed there was...
The press were given the opportunity (o interview the medallists the day before the meetings at St Katharine's Pier. - View image in PDF
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.45 P.M. on the 29th July, 1938, the nightwatchman at St. Sampson's Harbour received a message, flashed in morse from the Great Western Railwaysteamer Sambur, that shouts for help had been heard from a boat...
The Duncan life-boat at Sheringham saved 3 persons from the schooner Hero, of Maldon, which had stranded opposite Bee- ston Hills, near Sheringham.
WITHERNSEA.—The fishing smack City of Bristol, of Hull, stranded about a mile S. of the Life-boat house during a S.E. by S. wind, a heavy snowstorm, and a chopping eea, on the 5th of January. The Admiral Sous Life-boat was launched at 9.15 A...
NOVEMBER 16TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 3.35 in the afternoon coastwatchers at Brownstown Head saw a boat in difficulties in Tramore Bay and informed the life-boat station. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a very...
On the night of the 2nd November, at 10 P.M., blowing a heavy gale from the north, signals of distress were seen from Lowestoft: the life-boat was at once launched through a heavy surf, and pro- ceeded under sail to the spot, where the...
OCTOBER 30TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. H.M.S. Sturdy, a patrol vessel, was reported to have gone ashore on the west side of Tiree. The life-boat searched in a very rough sea, with the wind at hurricane force, but she could find nothing,...
It was blowing fresh at S.E., on the 24th February, -when the schooner Jessie Brown, of Yarmouth, from Yarmouth to Belfast, got ashore on Scroby Sand. The Life-boat 'Leicester launched just before dark, and succeeded in bring- ing on...
ON the 10th October last at an early hour the inhabitants of Brighton were aroused from their beds by the report of an approach- vious to the life-boats reaching the wreck, several rockets with lines attached had been fired under the...
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