On the 24th Decem- ber, the schooner WAhelmina, of Veesdam, went on shore, during stormy weather, at Scolston Head, off Peterhead. The People's Journal, No. 1, life-boat at the latter place, went off and rescued one of the crew.
Frank Fahey TD. the new Irish Minister fof Marine and Natural Resources, made a special visit to Wicklow lifeboat station m March this year Minister Fahey was in Wicklow to board the new Irish Lights vessel Granuaile which later brought him... - View image in PDF
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Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.5 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out in a light north-north-easterly wind and a slight sea to the Harry R. Jones of Wilmington, to whose help she had gone the day...
MAY 4TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 10.15 at night the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel had burnt a flare between Britannia Pier and the jetty, and the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 10.27. A fresh...
Brothers and stations unite When Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
As part of a Rotaract Club of Bristol fundraising day last July on Broadmead shopping precinct podium, Geoff Davis attempted to beat the world football juggling record; he achieved 1,332 flicks—not a record-beating score but, nevertheless,... - View image in PDF
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(Above) Forty and more entrants set off on Sunday, October 4, for Soiithend-on-Sea ladies' guild's second tinnual fancy dress sponsored bicycle ride along the seafront from Shore House, Shoebury, where Percy Caron judged the costumes... - View image in PDF
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DR. E. A. PASK, O.B.E., has been coopted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. Dr. Pask, who was educated at Rydal School and Cambridge and studied at the London Hospital, is now Professor of Anaesthetics in the University of...
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Appledore, Devon.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 6th of December, 1954, the coxswain reported that the barges Julia Pile and Nellie Ann, of Barnstaple, which each had a crew of two, had got into difficulties off Crow Point while collecting...