Mrs Catherine Patterson, vice-president of Anstruther ladies' guild, and Coxswain Peter Murray handover a cheque for £4,700 to Lord Cough of the Scottish Executive Council. The money was raised at Anstruther's gala day when a... - View image in PDF
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BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...
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Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
The sound of clicking keyboards and ringing phones at RNLI Headquarters is pierced with a long, shrill bleep. It’s a pager alert. Chris Speers, the RNLI’s E-Design Officer, jumps up, gives a nod that means ‘not sure when I’ll be back’, and...
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WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...
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Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 3 p.m. on 5th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Amy Johnson was about to land the body of a man who had been dragged overboard by nets, with another fisherman,...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 10.45 P-m- on 2nd July, 1967, a message was received that medical assistance was required for a sick man working on the building of a new lighthouse on Claf Island. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 2, with...
Helmsman Edward Brown (left) and Crew Member Robin Middleton, New Brighton. - View image in PDF
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