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Comet

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

Barmouth, Merionethshire. — At 8.30 on the evening of the 28th of August, 1951, the police reported that the Tonfanau artillery camp had an- nounced a small fishing boat in distress.

There was one man in her,...

Into The Cauldron

Date: Spring 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 580

IntO tHe Cauldron Few people would risk swimming 30m through churning seas, surrounded by rocks – but that’s exactly what an RNLI lifeguard did in her bid to save a life South of Cornwall’s popular Perranporth beach, a gully lies in amongst...

Category: Articles

William and Mary

Date: February 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 99

After daylight on the 14th October, the fishing vessels of Newbiggin -were caught in a' sudden gale from the east, and obliged to j make for the port. Anticipating some i mishap, the Life-boat William HopJcinson, \ of BrigJiouse, was...

None

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—On the 19th of January, 1954, a motor-vessel passed a message to the life-boat station through Portpatrick airport, asking that a doctor be sent to the island of Rhum. The bad weather had put the normal means of...

Roger Bushell

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

Torbay, Devon.—At noon on the 6th of October, 1955, a local trawler company reported that their trawler Roger Bushell, of Brixham, which had a crew of eight, had lost her propeller and was drifting ten miles east-north-east of Berry Head. At...

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Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

AUGUST 28TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

It had been reported that an airman was descending by parachute eight miles N.E. of Dungeness, but he landed near the beach and was able to swim ashore, although his hands had been badly...

Scrivens

Date: Autumn 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 538

"MY HEARING AND HAPPINESS - I'VE REDISCOVERED BOTH!" "I'm not deaf but I am hard of hearing", (iwen Banks of Plymouth told us.

"My hearing problem gradually got worse over the years until it...

Category: Advertisement

Flamingo

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.55 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch appeared to have broken down one mile south-east of the pier. One of her crew of three was waving an oar, and at 6.17...

Ethel

Date: August 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 173

On the 16th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from S. by W. with a rough sea, the trawler Ethel, of Great Yarmouth, anchored about 1J miles N.

of the harbour awaiting the tide. When the flood tide had made she got...

Blackpool Life-Boat on Exercise

Date: March 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 383

Blackpool Life-Boat On Exercise. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs