At 6.23 A.M. on the 22nd September the coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel off Seaford Head was burning flares, but that there was no immediate need for the life-boat, as a "steamer had gone to her. Later it was reported that the...
Hard graft & glamour Her remarkable determination and bravery have won Tanni Grey-Thompson international awards and fans – but the sporting idol has her own heroes and heroines, as she explains to Rory Stamp ‘The weather was horrible,’...
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EX-COXSWAIN JOHN WAITERS Ex-coxswain John Watters died on 2nd September, 1965, aged 66. He had been coxswain of Fowey life-boat for more than 25 years and was awarded the RNLFs bronze medal for gallantry in 1947 f°r a difficult and...
Category: Obituaries
TOWED TO NEWHAVEN Newhaven, Sussex. At 9.59 p.m. on 27th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was flashing an SOS signal south-east by south of West Pier, Newhaven. Maroons were fired at 10.1 and nine minutes...
SKERRIES.—About 3 P.M. on the 16th April, the schooner Isabella, of Portmadoc, bound from London to Dundalk, was observed to part from her anchors and drive towards the rocks. A strong gale from the E.S.E. was blowing, and a heavy sea was...
The Maud Smith Bequest for the bravest lifesaving act by a lifeboatman in 1976 has been made to Crew Member Glyn Roberts of Porthdinllaen for the rescue, last August, of two boys who were trapped on the cliffs. Glyn Roberts climbed almost...
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Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 9.22 in the morning of the 6th of January,1952, the Scilly Islands medical officer telephoned that a patient at St. Mary's needed an immediate operation and, owing to fog, the surgeon and his staff could not fly...
Sick watch-leader evacuated from sail training ship WHILE St Helier's Tyne was away for engine repairs (see story page 4) the relief Waveney Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse I! was involved in a medical evacuation from the 130ft sail...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th of March, 1957, it was reported that the motor vessels Corallo, of Trieste, and Nopal Branco, of Oslo, had been in collision and that...
Dr Hilary Jones of the Firth Medical Centre, Sullom Voe, Shetland, sets out on a long distance windsurf across Bus/a Voe. He completed the 14-mile trip from Brae to Aith and back in three hours and 20 minutes. The £500 he raised in... - View image in PDF
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