Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.20 on the even- ing of the 16th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned a report from the North Foreland Golf Club that a cabin-cruiser had fired a red Verey light half a mile off North...
Aboard Arwed Emminghaus a few technical details are explained by her captain, Rolf Hoffman. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of the Central Office of Information. - View image in PDF
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MAY 31ST. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
A trawler had gone aground, and one of her crew was injured, but a tug arrived with a doctor. - Rewards, £7 10s..
AUG. 1ST. - GALWAY BAY, GALWAY.
At 6 P.M. a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing,...
Greater London.
Life-boat stand at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. (A special report will appear in the next issue.) BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman,...
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Dover, Kent.—23rd May, 1939. A vessel had been reported on fire, but it was found that it was only her funnels sending out dense smoke.—Partly permanent paid crew: Rewards, £2 17s..
7th December. A barge stranded at Bacton. Three of the crew were rescued by lines from the shore, and one was drowned.—Rewards, £24 8s. Qd..
The fourteenth collecting box to be put before the public in the Chertsey area: this one is at the leisure centre, Thorpe Park, and was unveiled by RNLI chairman, the Duke of Atholl (I.) in the presence of Terry Cat/iff, director of Leisure... - View image in PDF
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" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.
'•What, sir...
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OCT. 3RD. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. A large lighter had been reported broken away from her tow in a heavy sea, with half a gale blowing. After two hours the life-boat came up with her, about twelve miles from Ilfracombe, but found that there was...