A Gallant Service off Folkestone.
ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...
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By Captain STENISBERG, Secretary of the Svenska Sillskapet For Kaidning Af Skeppsbrutne.
[This article, on the Swedish organiza- tion or rescuing life from shipwreck, which Captain Isberg has very kindly written for THE...
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LAUNCH OF THE WORTHING LIFE-BOAT FOR TESTING THE USE OF OIL IN A ROUGH SEA.
It will be remembered that oil was used with great effect in the service to the "Rohilla" in November, ... - View image in PDF
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Ready for the start of Exmouth Carnival Procession last summer, old pulling lifeboat The Bedford, lent by Exeter Maritime Museum for the occasion. She was manned by members of Exmouth lifeboat crew. Photograph by courtesy of L. W. Aplin..<... - View image in PDF
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MRS. BELLA MATTISON whose portrait is on page 254 is the last of the fisher- wives of Cullercoats to eollect for the Life-boat Service.
The collections started in 1922 when twenty-six of the fisherwives, among them Mrs....
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COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR AND BALTIMORE | 17 JUNE
A solo yachtswoman was in a race from Falmouth to Baltimore when she lost power and steering off the Cork coast in a force 6. Courtmacsherry and Baltimore...
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BEDFORDSHIRE.
Hitchin held a Centenary Meeting, which was addressed by Major Sir | Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee of Management.
Bedford held a successful Century Life-boat Day in...
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Persons Time of rescued from 1931. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 6. 7.15 a.m. S.S. Nurtureton, of Newcastle. Dungeness No. 1 Pulling and Sail- ing Life-boat stood by vessel.
„ 12. 5.0 p.m. Motor fishing...
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November Meeting.
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the 2nd September a salvage party of six was marooned on the wreck of the Harvest Queen, owing to their boat breaking away and capsizing. Their plight was seen by a...
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( With an Illustration.") " THERE'S two ends to every trouble, Mary; there's the end that goes downward and drags us to the earth, and there's the end that goes upwards and draws us to...
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