During the past summer the coasts of England, Scotland and Wales, have been crowded with visitors from all parts of the United Kingdom, in a great measure owing to the pestilential condition of some parts of the Continent. We heard on all...
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Set against a buoy HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat station at 2251 on Friday, July 16, that cries for help heard coming from the vicinity of Sconce Buoy, near Fort Victoria, had been...
10th Sep- tember. A steamer stranded, but her crew got ashore in the ship's boat.— Eewards, £3 2s. &d..
To Sir FREDERICK W. MONEYPEXNY, C.V.O., C.B.E., of the Belfast Lough Branch Committee, in recognition of his valuable co-operation for many years, the Gold Pendant and Record of Thanks.
To Mr. HENRY BTODEN, on his...
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Lifeboat Lottery Leap into Spring! Tickets for the Spring 2007 Lifeboat Lottery are available from 16 January–16 March 2007, with the draw taking place on 30 March 2007 First prize is a Citroen C1 and the second, sponsored again by...
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Notes of the Quarter 110 Lifeboat Services 113 Volume XLIX Number 490 Naming of the RNLBNewsbuoy 118 Rocks and Shoals 119 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Aberystwyth Lifeboats by Joan Davies 125 Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W. J. GRAHAM...
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Holy Island, Northumberland. - 11.45 in the morning of the 6th of February, 1948, the coxswain saw that a fishing coble was in danger of driving on to the Megstone Rock, and the motor h'fe-boat Gertrude was launched at 12.20.<...
At 11 P.M. on the 14th November signals of distress were shown by the schooner Queen of the Isles, of Carnarvon.
The wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was running.
The George...
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the 25th January, the Life-boat Leicester went off to the barque William Naizby, of London, which vessel had parted both her chains in a heavy squall, and had afterwards come into collision with the steamer Romeo, of...
SINCE writing the preceding article we have been again shocked by the intelligence of another of those frightful accidents at sea, which we now as regularly look for in the newspapers of the day as we do for the murders, garotte robberies,...
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