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Worthwhile Find
Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).
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/~ — y. j. f Y "f c* Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 39 North Cornwall . . . visit of The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution, to five stations in North Cornwall 41 VolUme XLVI Lifeboat Services 42 Number 465...
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An Aeroplane
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—10th September.
During the King's Cup Air Race it was reported that an aeroplane had come down in North Bay, but actually it had crashed on Castle Hill.
—Rewards, £13 12s....
A Drifter
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—26th October, 1939. A drifter had been reported as flying distress signals, but she got into the shelter of Douglas Bay unaided.
The life-boat was out for nearly five hours in a gale with a heavy sea.—...
New for Old
1998 saw two historic lifeboats return to the water - and both most appropriately in the area where they served as active lifeboats.
At Beinhridge the Coxswain of the current lifeboat Martin Woodward, saw years of tenacity...
Category: Articles
The Dredger Delta
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of December, 1956, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that the dredger Delta had engine trouble and was in danger of drifting on to the revetment wall a mile and a half north of...
Sea Venture
TOW FOR FISHING BOAT IN FOG Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 6th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing boat Sea Venture was overdue. She had last been seen south of Newcombe buoy at...
Egmont
At midnight on the llth February it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Egmont, of and for Cork from Cardiff with a cargo of coal, was riding with only one anchor close to " Holden's Bed." Her crew were said to...
Margaret Wicks
BY BREECHES BUOY Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 3.17 a.m.
on 8th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Margaret Wicks,of Fleetwood, was ashore on the Mull of Oa. There was a fresh...
A Sailing Dinghy
Margate, Kent. At 5.34 on the after- noon of 6th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was being carried out to sea east of Longnose buoy. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a slight...