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Category: Articles
H.M. M.V. Platypus
DECEMBER 1ST. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 10 P.M. news was received that a small unknown vessel was ashore about the middle of the East Scar Rocks. It was low tide, and at 11 o’clock one of the crew walked ashore and gave the...
Kings of Wessex School Cheddar
A tug of war across the river, or for one of these gallant but presumably doomed young competitors, over the river.
This was just one of the ways that pupils from Kings of Wessex School, Cheddar, succeeded in raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M.S. Witherington (1)
APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.3 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...
Panda
Margate, Kent. At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Margate sands.
At eleven o'clock the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
George Harrison Bem
JANUARY 1991 George Harrison BEM, mechanic at Lytham St Annes from 1939 to 1978. George, who was perhaps the longest serving mechanic, was awarded a Bronze medal in 1939, the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum in 1962 and the BEM in...
Category: Obituaries
Albert Watson Bem
JANUARY 1992 Albert Watson BEM, coxswain of Cromarty lifeboat from 1934 to 1968 when the station closed. He had been assistant mechanic from 1928 until his appointment as coxswain and was awarded a Silver Medal in 1959..
Category: Obituaries
Gem, of Crail
AUGUST 28TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 2.30 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a fishing boat, off Fifeness, making heavy weather. A south-easterly gale was blowing, the sea was very rough, and wind and sea were...
Tay, of Dundee
During a strong gale from the S.S.E. on the 30th November, it was reported that the schooner Toy, of Dundee, was on shore on the Gaa Sand, at the mouth of the Tay.
The Mary Hartley life-boat was thereupon at once launched,...