WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — On the 26th February, while the fishing boat Olive, of Banff, was attempting to put to sea in a moderate S.E. breeze, but rather rough sea, she grounded on a sandbankat the mouth of the harbour, when a huge wave...
ON the 26th of March, three Army officers from Dover, members of the Royal Artillery Yacht Club, set sail in a yacht for Margate. Just after four in the afternoon they were seen by the shore attendant attempting to enter Ramsgate harbour. He...
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Plymouth, Devon.—At 9.20 on the evening of the 10th of December, 1957, the coxswain learnt that two men had left in a dinghy to board one of their tugs but had been carried to leeward.
A hurricane was blowing and a number...
IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of the Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout the...
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AND KINGSDOWNE.—Two large vessels went on the Goodwin Sands on the 18th De- cember. They were the barque Albert, of Bremen, 750 tons, bound thence to the East Indies, and the barque India, of Shields, 700 tons, bound to that port from Quebec...
The German steamer Marie Leonhardt, of Hamburg, whilst bound from Scotland to Genoa with a cargo of coal, stranded on the Goodwin Sands, during a strong E.S.E.
gale and a very heavy sea, on the 17th January. Signals of...
New Quay and Pwllheli’s all-weather lifeboats worked together to rescue the crew of the Galasma on 6 September. The yacht, with fi ve people onboard, was having trouble in a force 8 northerly wind. Rough seas meant she wasn’t making much...
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FEBRUARY 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 10.40 A.M. t h e coastguard reported a light E. by S. of Peterhead, and later reported that it was still to be seen, drifting northward. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...
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In a branch house-to-house collection two boxes may, rarely, be found to contain the same amount when opened, but how about this ? Two collectors worked on the opposite side of each road in their area,...
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Henry Cooper, hero of sporting Britain, announced his retirement from boxing after losing his European, British and Commonwealth titles at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on 16th March, 1971, to Joe Bugner. But Henry Cooper still had time for the... - View image in PDF
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