On the 2nd November, at daylight, the brig North Esk, of SUnderland, was seen ashore on the north tail of Bideford Bar, the wind blowing a hurricane from W.N.W. at the time. A crew was quickly despatched from Apple- dore to man the life-boat...
A vessel was seen from this place on the 14th February, apparently unmanageable, and showing sig- nals of distress. Soon afterwards she ran ashore at the east side of Rye Harbour. It was blowing strong from W.S.W., and there was a heavy sea...
PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Has- borough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...
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SEAHAM, DURHAM.—The seafaring popu-ation of this place having expressed a de- sire to have a life-boat, not only for the sake of assisting the crows of distressed vessels, but also that they might bo on- ! abled to help pilot and...
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Every second counts as three saved from submerged dory The crew of the Whitstable lifeboat had just 17 minutes to save three lives. Weather conditions were so bad, they exceeded the operating limits of the lifeboat, but the crew knew that...
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YOUNG FUNDRAISER RECOGNISED
Fourteen-year-old Luke Jenkins has been helping to save lives at sea for most of his life. As a baby,
his mother Aisling carried him in a sling on an...
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The fishing cobles of North Sunderland and Beadnell were over- taken by bad weather when at sea on the 6th April. The W.N.W. wind increased during the day, and one boat made North Sunderland Harbour with great difficulty. Shortly after noon...
Gardner engines have to be good Lives depend on them.
That is why men of the R.N.L.I, deserve the very best in equipment— like the Oakley-designed self-righting lifeboat "The Earl and Countess Howe", powered by...
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