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Coxswains All: Left to Right Aboard the Watson Cabin Motor Lifeboat Civil Service No 5 Hugh Nelson Coxswain from 1949 to 1954 Andrew White Coxswain from 1917 to 1
Coxswains all: Left to right, aboard the Watson cabin motor lifeboat Civil Service No. 5, Hugh Nelson, coxswain from 1949 to 1954, Andrew White, coxswain from 1917 to 1949, and Alexander Nelson, coxswain from 1954 to 1960. The photograph was... - View image in PDF
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An Irish Air Force Seaplane (1)
Rosslare Harbour, and Kilmore, Co. Wexford.
—A message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M. on the 3rd March, 1939, that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off Carnsore Point.
A S.S.E....
Yacht Monie
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 9.9 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, the Cliff End coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress at the mouth of Lymington River. She was the auxiliary cutter yacht Monie, of Southampton, bound with a crew...
Cairngorm
DEC. 14TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO.
WATERFORD. The motor ship Cairngorm, of Glasgow, shortly after taking a pilot aboard, went aground on the west side of Waterford Harbour, one and a half miles from Dunmore East. Distress...
Yarra Yarra
ROSSLARE HARBOUR, WEXFORD.—The schooner Yarra Yarra, of Skerries, bound from Newport to Wexford with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore near the Rosslare Lighthouse in a strong E.S.E. gale and very rough sea, on the night of the 7th March....
Gwynronald
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the night of the 19th September flares were seen about three miles N.E. of the life-boat station. They were repeated shortly after and the motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 10.30 P.M.
to...
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Barbados
FEBRUARY 2ND . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 10.35 A.M. a message was received from the Mablethorpe coastguard through the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Spurn, that a trawler was ashore N.W. of Donna Nook. A fresh E.S.E. breeze was...
Wild Rose
About midday on the 13th July a telephone message was received from the Foreland light- house that a small boat was in distress off the Foreland. A strong and in- creasing W.S.W. breeze was blowing, and a rough sea was getting up. The...
Fortuna
PLYMOUTH.—Sockets were sent up from Batten Coastguard Station during a very heavy gale from S.W. to W.S.W. at 6 A.M.
on the 28th October. The Life-boat Clemency went out to render assistance to any vessel in distress, and...