The following article by Alex Dickson appeared in the Scottish Daily Mail in December. It is reproduced here by courtesy of the Scottish Daily Mail.
Beside every life-boat there hangs an extra set of bright yellow oilskins....
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RAILWAYS STEAMERS HELP TO FIND FISHING BOAT St. Helier, Jersey. At 4.10 on the morning of the 30th August, 1962, the harbour office informed the honorary secretary that the 28-foot fishing boat Pinafore, which had put out with a crew of four...
EXMOUTH, DEVON.—A new Life-boat has been placed on this Station, in lieu of the old boat, and the gift by Mrs. JOSEPH SOMES of Annery House, North Devon, of 3,0001. to the Institution to defray the cost of a Life-boat and its permanent...
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BOYS RESCUED Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.7 a.m. on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a boat from a pilot vessel with two boys on board had broken down, was unlit and drifting up river. At 2.35 the...
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel fonnd her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from Glasgow...
Eleven lifeboats in biggest ever Cardigan Bay searchCrew from nine lifeboat stations were united in a search for a missing power boat at Cardigan Bay. The Coastguard coordinated an extensive search involving 11 lifeboats, a rescue helicopter...
ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...
AGROUND IN DENSE FOG Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.47 in the morning of the 7th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported a steam trawler aground near the end of the North Pier. There was a dense fog with a light westerly wind and a calm sea. The...
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Three triumphant waves from (I to r) Dawn Moore, her husband Jon and Maggie Annat. They have just completed a remarkable 22 week circumnavigation of Britain by canoe. All three are instructors at Outward Bound Wales at Aberdovey and Dawn and... - View image in PDF
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