Ilfracombe, Devon. — During the afternoon of the 25th January, 1939, anxiety was felt for the safety of the motor fishing boat Rowena, which had been at sea since 6 A.M. and had not returned with the other boats which had put out with her. A...
MCH. 25TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 7.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain reported that three fishing cobles were out north of the Brig. The weather was bad, with heavy snow and showers, and it was decided to keep a look-out. Later the weather...
FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
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Torbay, Devon.—At 8.55 on the morn- ing of the 30th of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was burning flares south- west of Thatcher Rock. At 9.12, at high tide, the life-boat George Shee put out. The sea...
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Cruiser foundered ON THE NIGHT of Saturday June 21, 1980, the motor cruiser Bay Monarch with four people on board ran aground on rocks and sank south of Swordale on the Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis.
The four survivors...
“WE WERE SO PLEASED WITH OUR BRILLIANT NEW DRIVEWAY, WE GOT TOWN & COUNTRY TO DO THE PATHS AND PATIO AS WELL”. Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, it’s beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a...
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Fire at sea: Both St Helier and St Peter Port lifeboats, the 44' Waveney Thomas James King and the 52' A run Sir William Arnold, launched on service on September 77, 7976, to go to the help of fishing vessel Mako, on fire 16 miles... - View image in PDF
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