In 1941 the Air Ministry asked the Institution if it could open more stations on the west coast of Ireland for the help of aeroplanes which were forced down by bad weather, failure of fuel or injury in battle, as they flew in from the...
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Bronze medallist David Wilson, of Thornhill, Dewsbury.
West Yorkshire, plans to be in Rome next year to take part in the World Model Powerboat Championships, flush with his success in the 1987 event at Schwerin, East...
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Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 12.45 A.M.
on the 18th December, 1938, the coastguard reported that a trawler was ashore in a bad position near North Gare Breakwater, and was making distress signals. She was the steam trawler...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 6.57 on the evening of the 27th of November, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that he had seen red and green rockets between three and four miles south- east of the coastguard station. At...
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary noticed that the local fishing boat Sea Sweeper, which had a crew of four, appeared to have broken down about half a mile from...
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—On the night of the 2nd of August, 1949, a moderately strong northerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and at 9.50 the coast- guard telephoned that a fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties and had...
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.56 on the morning of the 3rd of November, 1958, the life-boat Constance Calverley, which was at sea undergoing machinery trials, received a message by radio-telephone from the reserve life-boat Helen Sutton, which...
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 7.54 on the morning of the 7th of January, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report that a rocket had been seen near the Gorton lightvessel.
At 8.15 the life-boat Michael...
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 11.35 on the morning of the 28th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a sailing boat was lying to her anchor in a position which might become dangerous off the mouth of the River Aln. At...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 3.52 on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary of a police report that two men, who were believed to have taken the fishing boat Sandra without...