AT 6.15 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig, Inverness-shire, life- boat station, Mr. R. Watt, was told by the coastguard that a German ship was ashore on the island of Rhum fourteen miles away....
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A Year of Conspicuous Services.
THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...
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On the 22nd August, the brigantine Nameless, of Cork,and the schooner Emily Ann, of Carnarvon, were observed in distress off Tenby during a strong gale of wind. The Florence...
Arnold Clark's Drew Sommerville presents a delighted Mr and Mrs McDonald with their Ford Ka. - View image in PDF
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KETCH SNATCHED FROM GOODWINS WHEN a yacht was seen burning flares in the vicinity of the South Goodwin \ightvessel at 4.6 a.m. on 24th May, 1972, the Walmer, Kent, life-boat was launched 14 minutes later.
The life-boat...
Dover, Kent. At 5.34 on the afternoon of 15th April, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat DR. 64 was in difficulties with engine failure close inshore at St.
Margaret's Bay. At...
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DURING 1938 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 53 British vessels; forty-five of these services were by the United States, three by Norway, two by Holland, and one each by France, Sweden and...
Category: Services