Slue Peter presenter Konnie Huq takes a trip on Blut Peter 1 with the Uttlehampton crew. - View image in PDF
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PALLING.—A new 12-oared life-boat has been placed at Palling, on the Norfolk Coast, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in lieu of a smaller one previously there.
The cost of this boat and her carriage, together with a...
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Margate, Kent. At 9.21 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen in the direction of Margate Sands five miles north-west of Margate. The coxswain had also seen these flares,...
On the 24th Decem- ber, the schooner WAhelmina, of Veesdam, went on shore, during stormy weather, at Scolston Head, off Peterhead. The People's Journal, No. 1, life-boat at the latter place, went off and rescued one of the crew.
Margate, Kent - At 4.27 p.m. on 7th December, 1969, it was learnt that the 50 ft. ketch yacht Aquila, on passage from Newhaven to London with a crew of four, had fired red flares. She had ripped her mainsail in a sudden squall and had...
— On the 20th February, the schooners Albion, of Teignmouth, and Emma, of Barrow, an- chored in Fishguard Bay. Being strangers, the vessels came to anchor rather too far out in the bay, and the wind having suddenly shifted to the N.N.E., and...
DECEMBER 25TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. At nine in the morning the coastguard reported that an SOS had been received from a vessel ashore on Fladdachuain Island off the north of Skye, but that another vessel was standing by. A...
FEBRUARY 20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At five in the evening the life-boat coxswain received a message from the piermaster that a barge with all her sails blown away was driving towards the pier. A westnorth- west gale was blowing,...
PARACHUTE FLARES LIGHT CLIFFS EN SEARCH Aberdeen. At 9.29 on the evening of the 4th May, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a request from the police for help in searching for a man reported to have fallen over the...
Also, on the 12th February, the life-boat and steamer were again off in reply to sig- nals of distress from ships in the neighbour- hood of the Goodwin Sands. The wind had shifted from a southerly to a north-westerly direction, and in a few...