Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 12.45 p.m. on 16th April, 1966, the doctor nformed the honorary secretary that it was essential that an expectant mother on Tory Island was transferred to Dungloe Hospital as there was no medical aid available on...
You could hardly find a more hostile environment for a building, surrounded by water and exposed to the full force of whatever the North Sea can throw at it. The old station and slipway at the pier end here at Cromer is beyond repair and its... - View image in PDF
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On the 29th January, at 7 P.M., the Life-boat, Elizaleth Soys, brought on shore the crew of 21 men from the ! barque Margaret Evans, of Glasgow, bound ; from Philadelphia to Antwerp, which vessel had run ashore under Seaford Head...
A severed finger, no engine, rough seas: that was the harsh reality a yacht skipper faced off the Devon coast at the end of April. So how would he reach hospital?
‘All we knew when we launched...
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 11.30 p.m.
on 8th January, 1967, the surgeon of Kirkwall hospital informed the honorary secretary that a child at North Ronaldsay was suffering from acute appendicitis and should be transferred to...
Angler in the water WHEN, on the evening of Friday November 30, 1984, Mr Michael Morris, honorary secretary of Newquay (Cornwall)lifeboat station, was informed that a sea angler had fallen off the rocks at the western end of Fistral Beach,...
When a catamaran began pouring out smoke and flames, the lives of two sailors and their parrot were at stake.
It was clear, with a light south-westerly breeze and low tide when Powerboat Instructor Jono Garton (28) looked...
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High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW is now over and once again the results are very encouraging: 1,011 new members were enrolled. Such a good result could not have been achieved, however, without the help and dedication of our voluntary...
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Eight hundred branches held flag days in 1941, and 508 of thsse days collected more than ever before. 9,288,000 people contributed. That is 1,561,000 more than in 1940, and the biggest number who have ever given. The sum raised was...
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