WE have extracted the following account of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL.
The incidents...
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ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President— VICE-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S.
Chairman— THOMAS BARING, ESQ., M.P., V.P....
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Windsurfer saved in raging gale Windsurfer Peter Waters was enjoying a great day in the surf at Porthcawl on 26 January 2002 when a sudden wind knocked him through his sail and into the water. 'I was about half a mile out to sea,' he...
MEMBERSHIP of the R.N.L.I, is being introduced to provide an additional source of regular revenue over and above that raised by branches and guilds. There will be three forms of membership.
These are: (a) Life Members: a...
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Exmouth lifeboat volunteers received a Mersey class lifeboat in May as a replacement for their Trent. Although another all-weather lifeboat, the Margaret Jean’s shallower draught proved more suited to the location when, on 8 May, she...
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DECEMBER 22ND. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 4.55 in the afternoon the Portland Bill coastguard telephoned that a red distress signal had been seen a mile north of the Shambles Light-vessel. A strong southsouth- west wind was...
Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.
THIS year, for the first time, the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland was won by a pupil of a London school, Alfred Robinson, of Warple Way Mixed School,...
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Thick fog VISIBILITY WAS DOWN to a few yards when, at 2210 on Wednesday, June 16, Salcombe's 47' Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in thick fog to begin a search, with the aid of her radar, for a 19' cabin...
In rock cleft WHILE ON PASSAGE from Carrick Fergus to Portpatrick on Monday August 3, 1981, the 32ft motor sailer Maureen II suffered engine failure. She continued under sail but, trying to enter harbour, she ran into difficulties and was...