Diving for cash: For 12 vears regulars at the Three Cups in Stamford Bridge have been throwing their loose change down a 30ft well through port holes in the bar. Diver Phil Peace went down the well from a trapdoor behind the bar" to... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 18TH. - PORT ASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. During the morning a ship’s raft was seen being swept down the Sound of Islay. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Duke of Connaught, on temporary duty at...
To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
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LTTHAM, LANCASHIRE.—The Charles Biggs Life-boat was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the 5th November, in reply to signals of distress shown by the flat Evelina, of Euncorn, bound from Douglas, Isle of Man, to Euncorn with a cargo of railway iron....
BURRY PORT.— Signals having been seen on the morning of the 18th December, during foggy weather, a strong S,W.
wind, and a heavy sea, the Life-boat David Barclay of Tottenham was launched at 3.30, and found that the lights...
Shortly after midnight on the 4th-oth July, flares were observed by the Coastguard on duty at Westward Ho ! He at once communicated by telephone with Apple- dore, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was sent to the place...
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the night of the 16th February the 20,000-ton Union Castle liner Winchester Castle, bound from Port Natal for Southampton, ran aground two hundred yards south of Blacknor Fort. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
Sunderland, Co. Durham. — At 3.30 P.M. on the 17th August, 1938, the deputy dockmaster telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that a small boat was in distress. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Edward and...
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, the Port War Signal Station telephoned that a vessel, three miles south of Spurn Point, was making distress signals, and the motor life-boat City of...
The new 52-foot life-boat Arun sailing into St. Peter Port Harbour, Guernsey, on 15th October, 1972, for the dedication ceremony and (below) Mr. William T. Bishop, C.B.E., a member of the R.N.L.I. Committee of Management, addressing the... - View image in PDF
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