'FORTH TYNE NORTHWESTERLY BACKING SOUTHERLY. 4 OCCASIONALLY 5 IN FORTH AT FIRST, SHOWERS. GOOD" RAIN LATER, GOOD .UATSTRATING THE SHIPPING FORK :AS1 Peter Collyer The words are evocative. They are part of our cultural heritage....
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7: (Left) Journey Home Begins Over Beach And Up Slipway With Chock At The Ready Behind Carriage Track. - View image in PDF
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Propeller fouled A SMALL YACHT reported to HM Coastguard by VHP radio on the evening of Saturday October 7, 1978, that a 28ft sloop on passage from Penarth to Porlock Weir was broken down and drifting in Porlock Bay; she required immediate...
At 3.45 A.M.
on the 27th January the Coastguard reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress on the Newcombe Sands. The Life-boat Kentwell was despatched in tow of a tug and found the trawler Pet, of Lowestoft,...
Humber, Yorkshire - At 1.50 p.m.
on 30th April, 1966, a motorist told the coxswain superintendent that a small aircraft had crashed into the sea about two miles north of Spurn. There was a gentle south-easterly wind and a...
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1950, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a trawler in Moelfre Bay was flying a signal asking for a boat to stand by her. At 2.15, therefore, the life-boat G.W....
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—31st December, 1938. A steamer had run aground, but her crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard rocket lifesaving appliances.—Rewards, £7 6s. 6d..
Abandon Ship, by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O.
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Heroes of British Life-boats, by Gerda Shairer and Egon Jameson. Harrap.
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Flag days . . . George Price, DOS (East), at Harwich with coxswain and crew, the chairman and honorary secretary of the branch and a group of girl flag sellers who work at a local clothing factory belonging to the branch president, T. M. F.... - View image in PDF
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Eastbourne's D class inflatable lifeboat is pictured helping a windsurfer ashore on Sunday, September 13. He was one of several who got into difficulties during a weekend of bad weather along the south coast.. - View image in PDF
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