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Notes and News
UNEMPLOYMENT, strikes, the worldwide trade depression, and the political uncertainty—in a word, the full reaction after the years of war from which we have been suffering during this present year—have necessarily had a grave effect on all...
Category: Articles
Rescue of Angler
AN unusual rescue carried out in a small plywood dinghy led to the rescue from drowning of an angler near Dunbar on 15th April, 1968. At 3.30 in the after- noon of that day, Miss H. Bibby, a gardener on the Earl of Haddington's estate at...
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James
SUNDEELAND.—The schooner James, of Inverness, bound for Sunderland in ballast, while making for the port during a S.S.E.
wind at 9 P.M. on the 1st of March, stranded on the outer bar of the river Wear, and made signals for...
Ben Bheula
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the morning of the 16th of March, 1949, the Kilchoman coastguard reported a message from McArthur's Head Lightr house that a vessel was flashing S.O.S.
signals one mile from the...
An Aeroplane
Dover, Kent.—At 7.15 P.M. on the 14th May, 1938, a man reported that he had seen an aeroplane come down in the sea about six miles S.E. of South Foreland.
A gentle S.S.W. breeze wasblowing, with a calm sea. The motor...
Five Hundred People Attending Gorleston Lifeboat Hall Gave a Big 'send Off to a Mammoth Fund-Raising Event By- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No 41 The
Five hundred people attending Gorleston lifeboat hall gave a big 'send off to a mammoth fund-raising event by- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No. 41.
The Tabler.i aim to raise £10,000 for the Institution... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At Wells Norfolk a Road Has Been Named After Coxswain Theodore Neilsen Who Was a Famous Wartime Coxswain In 1942 for Example He Searched a Sinking Lancaste
by courtesy of the 'Eastern Daily Press' At Wells, Norfolk, a road has been named after Coxswain Theodore Neilsen who was a famous wartime coxswain.
In 1942, for example, he searched a sinking Lancaster bomber for... - View image in PDF
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West Hove County Primary Infants' School Sussex Answered the 'Blue Peter' BBC Television Appeal for Paperbacked Books to Help Provide Replacement Rescue Craft F
by courtesy of Evening Argus', Brighton West Hove County Primary Infants' School, Sussex, answered the 'Blue Peter' B.B.C. television appeal for paperbacked books to help provide replacement rescue craft forthe existing four... - View image in PDF
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Zephyrus
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—On the 20th July, the Life-boat Thomas Lingham proceeded to the assistance of the barque Zephyrus, of Plymouth, which had struck on the rocks at Cymyran, near Rhoscolyn, during a strong S.S.W. wind and heavy sea. The...
Sarah
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 8th May the fishing coble Sarah, of this port, which had gone out at about 3 A.M., was caught in a gale from the E.S.E, which subsequently sprang up, and at about 8.30 she was seen making for the harbour. The sea had...