Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
RESCUE D LifeBoAt CReW sAVes eAsteR BUNNy! Tobermory lifeboat crew had an unusual, yet appropriate, casualty to rescue on Easter Sunday in the form of a pet rabbit. Four adults, two children, a dog and the rabbit were onboard the yacht Blue...
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One family's century Thank you for your very kind letter regarding my coming resignation from the Committee of Management. It is sad to think that, after more than 100 years, there will be no Cave on the C.
of M. I am...
Category: Correspondence
ANNAN WATERFOOT, DUMFRIES-SHIRE. At 11.30 in the morning of the 27th of August, 1943, a Beaufort aeroplane crashed and exploded in the Solway Firth, about half a mile south-east of Annan Waterfoot. The sea was calm, with a light westerly...
Category: Services
FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...
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APRIL 17TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
Early in the morning a crash was heard by the coastguard, but the weather was foggy and he could see nothing. He made enquiries but learnt nothing. At 9.33 the life-boat honorary secretary...
An honorary Record of Thanks was presented to the Association of Inner Wheel Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland. Collecting the award were Anne Fryer and Ann Koh. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GORLESTON.—On the 15th November at 2 A.M., while a fresh and increasing breeze was blowing from the N.N.E., with a rough sea and foggy weather, flares were seen in the direction of the North Sand.
The crew of the Gorleston...
At 6.50 A.M. on the 1st January a message was received at the Coast-guard Signal Station from the captain of the s.s. Pinna, of London, to the effect that he was in distress and required immediate assist- ance. The vessel was drifting before...
South East Division Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale...
Category: Services