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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk. — At 3.40 in the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard tele- phoned a report from the R.A.F.
station at Uxbridge that two Meteor aeroplanes had...
Fire on the water THE GARDAI telephoned Howth honorary secretary at 2325 on Monday, June 9, to say a patrol car at Malahide had reported what appeared to be something burning at sea off the High Rock between Portmarnock and...
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
Review by Sarah Bass
As Summer draws to a close, Carruthers is stuck in London at his Home Office job while his friends socialise outside of the city....
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On the morning of the llth of January the wind suddenly shifted to the N., and rapidly increased in violence until at noon it blew a fresh gale from the N.E., with a very high sea. At the time there was a small schooner, the Mary Jane, of...
MOTOR CRUISER TOWED AFTER CREW LAND Eastbourne, Sussex. At 6.15 on the evening of the 6th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was ashore on the rocks at Birling Gap. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache...
Filey, Yorkshire.—About half past three in the afternoon on the 14th of November, 1949, the coastguard tele- phoned that the life-boat coxswain at Flamborough had reported a fishingcoble, broken down but under sail, a mile north-east of the...
Hastings, Sussex. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of August, 1960, the police informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had towed an unexploded bomb on to the beach at the fishing stage. After discussion with the...
Saturday.—Life-boat Saturday — splendid institution—come now, you other chaps, fork out your subscriptions; Pee unfortunately left my parse at home (not that there's anything in it). Bat come, chuck 'em a copper—silver or gold will...
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On the 20th March, at about 5.30 A.M., the No. 2 Life-boat Roman Governor of Oaer Hun, was launched to the assistance of the brig Eleonore, of Tonsberg, Norway, which was showing signals of distress.
She went ashore about a...