Nine seamen rescued from coaster stranded on sandbank in heavy swellA service by Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II on 21 November 1990 has been recognised in a letter of thanks to the crew from the Chairman of the...
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...
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'Oh, we'll be there from about eight, see you when you arrive' said the cheerful voice on the other end of the phone. As I put the handset down I reflected on the distance some of those 'we's would have to travel to be at...
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Mr. W. J. Oliver, who died on 4th March, had been Honorary Secretary of the Sunderland Branch for twenty-five years, and for nearly fifty years had been actively connected with the work of saving life from shipwreck. When he was appointed in...
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Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hand Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility chat includes a dill repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
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Lady Hamilton would have approved! Bucklers Hard Boat Builders offer a comprehensive facility that includes a Rill repair & maintenance, custom build facility (power & sail), mobile crane up to 35 tons, summer & winter...
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Thursday, 28th April, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Anonymous, for the new Montrose...
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FISHING BOATS IN A SNOWSTORM Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of February 28th, 1947, three motor fishing boats put to sea in mod- erate weather. By ten o'clock a strong easterly wind was blowing, with snow showers, the sea was...
Fishing boat sinks AT 1235 on Thursday August 21, 1986, Oban Coastguard informed Mr A.
McLellan, honorary secretary of Mallaig lifeboat station, that a fishing vesselhad struck rocks on the south coast of Rhum and required...