6th June. A small boat was in difficulties, but made land at Birchington without help.—Re- wards, £8 11s..
SEPTEMBER 25TH. - LONGHOPE , ORKNEYS. Vessels had been reported in collision and flares had been seen, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £10 18s..
How came the might of England ? Not by the tongue or pen; Deeply it grew as a flower in the hearts of its bravest men.
And it scattered the seeds of heroes along the storm-swept shore, That they might work for glory,...
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LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY HOLED COASTER New Brighton, Cheshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of Friday the 26th of July, 1963, the Formby coastguard reported that the coaster Cristo of Liverpool was aground near C.I5 buoy but was in no...
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Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 2.35 p.m. on 14th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four cobles, one of which had 25 passengers on board, were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
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WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.
It might...
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(above) Storm Force member Lilly Henley is intent on completing the Storm Force Treasure Hunt at the London Boat Show.. - View image in PDF
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GULLS MISTAKEN FOR GIRL Appledore, Devon.—At 9.27 in the morning of the 18th of August, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard reported a girl adrift on a raft in Croyde Bay, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 9,37 in a light...
Ramsgate, Kent - At 12.2 p.m. on 17th January, 1969, the east pierwatchman told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had broken down in Pegwell bay. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 12.11 in a south...