I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.
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Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.40 on the morning of the llth of March, 1955, a postman told the mechanic of the life- boat that a ship was on fire about one and a half miles south-east of the life- boat station, and that a small tugcould be seen...
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When an American aeroplane came down in the sea near Caister the coxswain and other regular members of the crew were away, but ex-Coxswain Charles Lacock, aged 73, took command, three soldiers helped to make up the crew, and the life-boat...
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Holyhead, Anglesey. — 23rd July, 1939. A small yacht had gone agroundin a dangerous position, but she refloated with the rising tide.—Rewards, £7 10s..
28th July.
A trawler had stranded, but was found to have been abandoned.—Rewards, £4 12s. 6d..
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—-1st July. A steamer stranded on East Holm Sands, but refloated without help.—Rewards, £16 Is..
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 8th July. A boat containing four boys had been reported missing, but later it was reported that they had been found.— Rewards, £11 10s..
Torbay, Devon.—19th July, 1938.
An outboard motor boat was missing, but made Babbacombe while a search was being made for her.—Rewards, £9 7s..