Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
Ditched helicopter WHEN ON THURSDAY July 31, 1980, Aberdeen Coastguard heard at 1213 that a British Airways helicopter returning from an oil rig in the Clyde Field with 15 people on board had ditched in the sea a 'mayday' relay was...
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumber- land.—17th October, 1939. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched. A warning of an air-raid had been...
At 2.30 P.M. on the 15th May the coastguard received a telephone message from Gravir post office that at 7 A.M. three men had put off from Lemreway in an open boat to fish, and had not been seen or heard of since. A strong N.N.E. gale was...
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Norwegian yacht aground IN THE EARLY HOURS of Saturday, June 20, 1987, Ramsgate's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Ralph and Joy Swann launched in response to a message from Dover Coastguard MRCC that red flares and a MAYDAY signal had been...
AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT At 5.50 P.M. during an air-raid the police telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a man had come down in the sea by parachute two miles off Epple Bay. A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...
The paddle steamer Whippingham, of South- ampton, while on a pleasure trip from Ryde to Bournemouth on the afternoon of the 5th September, was in difficulties through a defect in the paddle wheels and began to leak, when about six miles...
(Below) Two Girl Guide brass trefoils, presented to Eastney ILB station by 29th Portsmouth Guide Company, have been chrome plated and fitted to the console of Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II.. - View image in PDF
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