Oct

9

2014

LIFEBOAT – Teesbay Lifeboat Institution

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 22/09/1876 TEES BAY LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION             A meeting of the committee of this institution was held at Redcar on Saturday (16/09). Present: Messrs. Fallows, Trattles, Moore, Jackson, and Wetherill: also the Hon. Secretary, Mr....

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Oct

4

2014

SHIPWRECKS & GROUNDINGS – Laden vessel stranded off Redcar ‘PYSCHE’

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Lifeboat

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 29/09/1876 LADEN VESSEL STRANDED OFF REDCAR             The Welsh three masted schooner Pysche (Jones, master) bound from Middlesbrough to Swansea with pig iron, ran on to the West Scar rocks, about midway between the two piers, late...

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Oct

3

2014

LIFEBOAT – “Man the lifeboat.”

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Lifeboat

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 01/09/1876 “MAN THE LIFEBOAT.”  The family of a gentleman of Bradford, who visited the life-boat during a short stay at Redcar, on returning held a child’s Bazaar, and transmitted the proceeds to Mr. J. Burning, coxswain of the life-boat,...

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Oct

1

2014

LIFEBOAT – Lifeboat Practice at Redcar

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Lifeboat

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea 08/09/1876 LIFEBOAT PRACTICE AT REDCAR             The quarterly practice with the new lifeboat “Burton-on-Trent” took place on Saturday (02/09). The boat having been most successfully launched, under the direction of Mr. J. Bates , chief...

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Sep

29

2014

LIFEBOAT – Service at Redcar

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea 25/08/1876 LIFEBOAT SERVICE AT REDCAR             On Wednesday (23/08) evening, between eight and nine o’clock, the old lifeboat was launched to the rescue of three men who had gone out in the early part of the afternoon for the purpose of...

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Sep

21

2014

LIFEBOAT – A new lifeboat for Redcar

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea 16/06/1876 A NEW LIFEBOAT FOR REDCAR At the annual meeting of the governing body of the United Free Gardeners’ last week, at West Bromwich, it was resolved to order the construction of a lifeboat, for which £400 has already been subscribed, and...

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Sep

19

2014

LIFEBOATS – Gallant lifeboat service at Whitby

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Lifeboat

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 20/05/1876 GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE AT WHITBY              A very important lifeboat service was performed at Whitby on Wednesday evening (18/05), by which more than a dozen fishermen were rescued from the storm. In the afternoon some...

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Sep

17

2014

LIFEBOAT – Hartlepool new lifeboats

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Lifeboat

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea Gazette 19/05/1876 HARTLEPOOL NEW LIFEBOATS              The National Lifeboat Institution has just forwarded another new lifeboat to Hartlepool. The boat is 33 feet long 8 ½ feet wide, and rows 10 oars, double banked; it possesses the usual...

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Aug

25

2013

LIFEBOAT – Rescue of nine Fishermen by the “Redcar”

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Fishing Vessels, Lifeboat, River Tees & Estuary

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn News 19/03/1874. GALLANT RESCUE OF NINE FISHERMEN BY THE “REDCAR” LIFEBOAT.             On Saturday morning last (12/03), three fishing cobles belonging to Redcar, three men in each boat, whilst pursuing their ordinary avocation, had a very...

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Jul

31

2013

National Lifeboat Institution 1873

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Accreditation the Redcar and Saltburn-by-the -Sea Gazette 02/01/1874. LIFEBOAT SERVICES IN 1873.             In 1873, the lifeboats of the National Lifeboat Institution saved 469 lives, in addition to 21, vessels from destruction. During the same period the lifeboat Institution granted rewards...

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