Tow the goat ashore! Tiffany, Timothy, Chocolate Drop, Snuffles and Gem were five goats who had got quite used to their lonely existence on the isle of Inchkeith in the Forth estuary.
When the Allandale Animal Sanctuary...
NORTH BERWICK.—The schooner Oberscew, from Dychling for Burntisland, laden with esparto grass, stranded on the rocks at Seacliff Point during a strong E.N.E.
breeze, a very rough sea and a thick fog on the 29th March. A...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of November, 1952, the Redcar coastguard tele- phoned that he had fired a rocket to warn a vessel that she was heading for Salt Scar Rocks. The vessel did not seem to...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.55 on the evening of the 6th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red flares had been seen south-east of the coastguard look-out.
At 9.20, when the life-boat Edian...
Lerwick's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Soldian with her crew and crew reserves. She was named by HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution on September 12, 1978.
Included in the report of the ceremony published in... - View image in PDF
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Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...
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WHITBY'S DANGEROUS BAR Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 5.30 in the morning of the 24th of March, 1947, seven fishing boats put to sea in moderate weather. By nine o'clock a strong northerly wind was blowing, the sea was rough, and the...