Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1955, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned to say the North Foreland radio station had reported that the motor trawler Saint-Pierre-Eglise, of Bou- logne, had...
The Cromer Lifeboats by Bob Malster and Peter Stibbons (Poppyland Publishing), available from Cromer RNLI honorary secretary, 33 Hillside, Cromer, Norfolk, for £1.20 plus 25p post and packing, is the third edition of booklets about the...
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Margate, Kent. — At 3.24 in the afternoon of the 10th of September, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had anchored three hundred yards off Reculver near the Black Rock, but that she had not made any distress signals. A motor boat...
DECEMBER 21ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. An airman was reported to have baled out from a Whitley aeroplane, but he was not found. - Rewards, £27 12s..
On the 15th December, during a heavy S.S.E. gale, two French vessels, mistaking this harbour for that of Portsmouth, struck on the sands at East [ Looe and West Looe respectively. The ' Manley Wood life-boat was soon launched...
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At 7.20 A.M. on the llth January rockets were observed in the direction of the Cross Sand light- vessel, and while the crew of the Life- boat were being assembled, a message was received by wireless telegraphy stating that a vessel was...
Not long after launching into an onshore Force 9 Whitstable's Atlantic begins to rise to a large sea (main photol.. - View image in PDF
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At 1.20A.M. on the 16th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on the Brigg, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched to help her. She found the vessel was the steamer Eglantine, of North Shields, bound for Havre with...