At 1.15 P.M. on the 25th May the Chief Officer of Coastguard reported that a vessel was showing distress signals off Clogher Head. The crew of the Lifeboat Charles Whitton were assembled and the boat was promptly launched. She pro- ceeded...
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire - At 5.20 a.m. on I5th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Maisie of Caernarvon had broken down six miles south west by west of Portpatrick. A message received...
DUNGENESS.—The Coxswain of the Life-boat B.A.O.B., being informed by the Coastguard on the morning of the 8th January that a steamer was stranded, the crew were summoned and at 5.30 the * Life-boat was launched.
The wind...
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 13th August, during a fresh wind from the S.E., the British Workman Lifeboat, on this Station, was launched to the assistance of the barque Zurich, of North Shields, which had stranded o u Hasborongh...
T* The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970....
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On the night of the 17th November the coastguard reported that a vessel in the roadstead, abreast the town, was burning flares. The Cockle and St.
Nicholas light-vessels also fired signals.
A strong N.E....
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A fierce westerly gale swept the Mersey during the early hours of the 27th August, and at about 4 A.M. the large dredger Walter Glynn, belonging to the Docks and Harbour Board, was capsized near the North Wall, Liverpool. She had a crew of...
WHILE H.M.S. Wishart was at Gibraltar last June one of her boats' crews picked up the crew of a yacht which had capsized. The rescued men gave their rescuers ten shillings, and they sent it to the Institution..
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