MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
The officers and men of the three fighting services have shown their gratitude by the way in which they responded in 1940 to the appeal which each year the Institution makes to them. The Navy and the Air Force contributed five times as much...
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Newhaven: At 2003 on Monday July 3 HM Coastguard informed Newhaven lifeboat station that the German coaster Arosette, two miles south of Beachy Head, had broadcast a 'mayday' calling for immediate help. Newhaven's 44ft Waveney... - View image in PDF
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OC T O B E R 5 T H . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 10.20 A.M. the Mersey Dock Board reported that the coasting steamer Aquilla, of Liverpool, was flying distress signals in Formby Channel off Q3 Red Buoy. A moderate westerly gale was blowing,...
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on the 30th January, the coastguard reported that a large steamer was aground on the Newcome Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross put out at 9 A.M. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was...
MARCH 15TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
At 3.50 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to Girvan that a ship was ashore on Ailsa Craig A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a wireless message had been intercepted from the Panamanian steamer Buccaneer that she had caught fire after being' in collision with the...