Books Thorny's - an oral history of Vosper Thornycroft's shipyard, Southampton Edited by Krista Woodley, Padmini Broomfield and Sheila Jemima Published by Southampton City Council ISBN 0954394151 Price £12 hardback John I...
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Struggling in the cold, dark sea, three football fans wondered if it was game over
After a night out in Barmouth watching Wales play in a televised football match on 6 July 2016, three sailors rowed a small dinghy...
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ON the morning of 27th July eight crab boats put out from Cromer, with a gale blowing. The sea was moderate, but heavy for small boats. It got heavier while the men were attending to the crab pots. The coastguard had them under observation,...
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The schooner Venus, of Preston, whilst entering the port on the 20th October, late on the tide, during a strong westerly wind, struck on the Horse Bank, on which a good deal of sea was then running. The Life-boat Wakefield was then taken out...
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The Humber, Yorkshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a cargo vessel and a trawler had been in collision and that the skipper of the trawler needed...
Bed port fires having been observed on the outside part of the Middle Scroby Sand, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 4th July, the crew of the Lifeboat Beanehamp were summoned and at 3.5 A.M....
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a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI King of the draw The names of the 20 lucky prize winners in the RNLI's 52nd national lottery were plucked from the drum on 31 January by Desmond Carrington, well-known actor and Radio 2 presenter.<...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boy was drifting out to sea in a rubber dinghy off South Beach. Ten minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...