Holyhead, Anglesey. — At 6.10 in the evening of the 26th of June, 1949, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Maureen, with twelve on board, had broken down off the Skerries.
She had reached Skerries Island,...
LYBSTER, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. At 10 o’clock in the morning of the 4th of December, 1945, three men in the motor fishing boat Seaflower, of Wick, had completed hauling their lobster creels, when their boat shipped a sea which stopped the engine....
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— A W.S.W. gale of unusual severity was experienced on the 15th March, and at 5 A.M. signals of distress were observed from a vessel in St. Tudwell's Roads.
The Life-boat Oldham was launched in response, and found the...
North Sunderland Mersey class Grace Darling Despite forecasts of heavy rain, the morning of Tuesday 24 September dawned bright.
However, there was also a Force 8/9 gale which caused the naming ceremony site at North...
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Greater London.
CITY.—Annual meeting at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £6,241, as compared with £7,647 in 1931.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive....
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North Eastern and Irish Free State Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in the North Eastern District was held at Bridlington on 18th September last. Representatives from thirty-six Branches and Guilds were present...
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When holidaymakers got trapped between cliffs and 2m waves with no way of calling the Coastguard, could anyone help them escape?
‘This was another idyllic sunny day so we headed out for a...
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NORTH SUNDERLAND.—During a heavy gale from the N., with a rough sea, a large fishing-boat, the Georgina, of Arbroath, was seen to be showing signals of distress on the morning of the 1st April.
The Thomas Bewick Life-boat...
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—At about 9 A M on the 21st March, during a gale from the N.W., the flat Three Brothers, of Chester, which was riding at anchor in Cemlyn Bay, exhibited a signal of distress. TheGood Shepherd Life-boat at once proceeded to...
Coxswain Neil Stewart, of Wick, Caithness-shire, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for rescuing 31 men from a motor barge and a tug which had gone on the rocks in a gale. In the first glimmer of daylight the coxswain took...
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