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Inverness Sub-Aqua Club
Inverness Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored snorkel in the River Ness, starting from the Infirmary bridge and ending up at Friar's bridge. Clem Watson, area organiser for north Scotland, is pictured (centre) in the river just before... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Italiana, of Nuova Rosa,
MARYPORT.—On the 29th August the barque Italiana, of Nuova Rosa, got ashore on Seaton Point, near Workington, during a fresh breeze at N.W. A boat from the neighbouring coast put off to give assistance, but was capsized, and 3 men on board...
A Sailing Dinghy
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 3.31 on the afternoon of the 18th of July, 1953, the Foreland coastguard rang up to say that a sailing dinghy had capsized a quarter of a mile from the coast- guard station, and that two boys were clinging to it....
A Boat (2)
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.47 p.m. on 29th October, 1967, the Deal coast-guard informed the life-boat coxswain that a small boat near the entrance to the river Stour needed help. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 6.5 in...
August
Launches 40 Lives rescued 93
AUGUST 2ND. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBJULY RIDES. About five in the evening information was received from the coastguard that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties off Greanhead. A south-east...
Category: Services
The Wherry Uncle George
BOYS ADRIFT At 5.17 p.m. on 27th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three boys were adrift in an 18-foot wherry. Despite the light southeasterly breeze there was a thick fog with visibility down to 50 yards and a...
The Aberdeen Steam Trawler, Braconmoor
Longhope (The Orkneys).
At one in the morning on 5th January, the Aberdeen steam trawler, Braconmoor, outward bound for the fishing grounds, went ashore on TornessPoint, in the Orkneys, three and a half miles from Longhope....
Readers Union (Maritime Book Society)
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Category: Advertisement
Launching Ceremony at Whitby. From "The Whitby Gazette."
SHORTLY after the commencement of the war, the finely-equipped Red Cross hospital ship Rohilla, belonging to the British India Steam Navigation Co., whilst proceeding on an errand of mercy to France, went ashore at Saltwick Nab, about a mile...
Category: Articles
Christiana
CARDIGAN.—On the 3rd May, the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Christiana, of Cardigan, were safely landed by the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare, their vessel having stranded on the West side of Cardigan bar, in a moderate...