Seaham, Co. Durham. At seven o'clock on the evening of the llth of June, 1960, some local fishermen toldthe coxswain that the fishing coble Marjory Joan of Sunderland was over- due. At 7.10 the life-boat George Elmy was launched, an hour...
Newcastle, Co. Down. H.M.S. Plover, visiting Newcastle, was due to sail early on the fth August, 1965, for the Clyde.
However, her commanding officer and forty ratings were stranded ashore as the liberty boat had grounded...
Main photo {far left) Ref: 639489 Detailed photo (left) ftef 639472 Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight, lies beside a harbour set in the estuary of the River Yar and is home to the busy Lymington- Isle of Wight ferry... - View image in PDF
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The Institution's income was the largest it has ever been. It was £356,320.
That was £72,168 more than in 1939, and this splendid increase was almost entirely due to the increase of £63,749 in...
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Two naming ceremonies in one day were carried out by H.R.H. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, on Thursday, 8th July, 1965.
Arriving by a helicopter of the Queen's Flight at Cromer and landing on the playing field of...
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MARCH 2ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 11 A.M. it was reported that H.M. Tug Fairplay II had stranded on the West Salt Scar Rock, near Redcar. At 11.45 A.M. the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched.
The...
The steam-trawler Preston, of Pittinweem, bound for North Shields with fish, stranded about 1.20 A.M. on the 24th May, to the south-east of the coast- guard station. The Life-boat Meliscent was immediately launched in answer to her distress...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishingboats went to sea early on the morning of the 19th January. When they were due to return the sea was breaking over the harbour entrance, which was made more dangerous by the riverwater running very strongly...
Poole, Dorset.—At 11.40 on the night of the 29th of April, 1956, the police rang up to say that a sailing dinghy with two young men aboard was over- due from a trip within the harbour.
The life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was...
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 11.49 on the night of the 7th of August, 1953, the police reported that eight people had left Groomsport in a motor boat at six o'clock and had been due back at 9.30. As they were still missing, the life-boat Sir...