The motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 11.32 A.M. on the 2nd December, as the coastguard had reported that a fishing boat, six and a half miles S.E. of Skeg- ness, had hoisted distress signals. A strong W. by S. breeze was blowing,...
NO PETROL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 2nd of December, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small boat was continu- ously flashing a light about one mile north-north-east of the lighthouse. A small...
LIFE-BOAT STOOD BY At 8.30 a.m. on 2nd December, 1963, the coxswain obtained permission from the honorary secretary to launch the lifeboat to escort the local fishing coble Florence, because of deteriorating weather.
There...
"NOW I CAN HEAR WELL I'VE A HAPPY HUSBAND" "I'm not what you'd call deaf", says Daphne Scott of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight, "but I am hard of hearing. It's made life difficult for years. As I got...
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WE have received a denation of ten shillings with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic " :—• " While a passenger on the Freighter Baby Castle, I have read...
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THE Rev. Thomas Stanley Treanor, M.A., came from the parish of Achill, on the west coast of Ireland, and in July, 1878, was appointed chaplain to the Missions to Seamen for Deal and the Downs. A scholar and author, Treanor could read Greek...
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DECEMBER 1ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
Shortly before mid-day the naval authorities telephoned that the ten-year-old daughter of the lightkeeper at South Lighthouse, Fair Isle, was in urgent need of a doctor. A S. by W. gale...
Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.
The American clipper...
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WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE—In a light wind, a moderate sea and hazy weather, on the morning of the 28th June, a telephone message was received from the Grunfleet Lighthouse reporting a barque ashore. The crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery...
At 5.35 p.m. on 4th September, 1966, a large vessel was reported aground on the Gunfleet Sands, but there was no immediate danger. The honorary secretary and the coxswain went to the coastguard lookout and saw the collier Corsea hard aground...