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Cliff walker revived
TREGANTLE BEACH | 21 JUNE
A woman who’d collapsed while walking up the cliff from Tregantle Beach in Cornwall was given emergency first aid by RNLI lifeguards. They moved the woman out of the...
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Osprey
Rhyl, Flintshire. —At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 24th of April, 1949, the owner of the local fishing vessel Osprey, reported that she was aground in the surf half a mile north of the entrance to Foryd Harbour. It could be seen that she had...
Grasby
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1955, the coastguard reported that he had seen red flares three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the coastguard sta- tion. At 5.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens put...
Margaret
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 25th of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that the local motor fishing vessel Margaret had left the harbour at four o'clock to attend her lines and was...
A Meteor Aeroplane (1)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...
Gerlisa
Aground in a storm IT WAS BLOWING A GALE from the south south east, gusting to storm force 10 at times when, on the evening of Friday December 12, 1986, the honorary secretary of Clogher Head lifeboat station received news that a fishing...
The right direction
New Quay’s Mersey and D class lifeboats were requested to launch at 3.45pm on 1 February after reports that a parachutist, jumping from 150m cliffs, had crashed.
The lifeboats searched the area between the Old Lookout and...
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Sand Dredger Sir Cedric Making Water Fast Was Towed from Three Miles West of trevose Light Back to Harbour on October 11/1975 By padstow's 48' 6" Oakley Lifeboat Ja
Sand dredger Sir Cedric, making water fast, was towed from three miles west ofTrevose Light back to harbour on October 11,1975, byPadstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane under the command of Coxswain A.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd.. of Littlehampton lor the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.
COMPASSES Write for Illustrated catalogue of compasses, post free on...
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Gretafield
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....