Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 12.43 early on the morning of the 1st of February, 1955, the coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler had run on the rocks at Inverallochy. At 1.12 the life- boat The Duchesx of Kent was...
DOCTOR TAKEN TO LIGHTVESSEL Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 1st January, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the Abertay lightvessel had fallen down the engine-room...
DECEMBER 29TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
Rockets or Very lights had been seen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £13 2s.
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NOVEMBER 8TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Star shells fired from a naval vessel had been mistaken for distress signals. - Rewards, £12 2s..
The Motor Life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 7 P.M. on the 1st July and went to the Buxey Sands, as the Coast- guard had reported a vessel ashore. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The Life-boat found that the...
Dover, Kent.—At 12.20 on the after- noon of the 1st of August, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had sprung a leak and needed help off the South Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 12.35. The...
Mr. John Prior, of Deal, who died on 14th December last at the age of eighty-four, was for twenty-five years the secretary of one of the most im- portant life-boat stations on our coasts —the famous station at North...
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on 20th Oct., saved 16 men from the barque Vermont, of Halifax..
Visits by French, Dutch and Spanish delegations, on behalf of their respective lifeboat societies, took place in November and January.
The Netherlands delegation, headed by the Director of the North and South Holland...
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