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Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 12.55 early on the morning of the 14th of Septem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had fired rockets in Largo Bay. At 1.30 the life-boatJames and Ruby Jackson was launched.
The...
NOVEMBER 10TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
Just before seven in the evening a message was received from the representative of a salvage company which was engaged in breaking up the wreck of the S.S. Marie Chandris, off Amsterdam...
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.12 on the evening of the 22nd of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a fishing vessel appeared to be in diffi- culties three miles north-west of Hilbre Island. He went to the boathouse and through a...
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the Antony Gormley sculpture on waterloo bridge lends a helping hand with collections. - View image in PDF
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The Llandudno life-boat Thomas & Annie Wade Richards. - View image in PDF
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I live on a Dutch barge moored on the Cadogan Pier in Chelsea. One evening I had retired to bed and was drifting off with the shipping forecast murmuring in the background when a Baskevillian scream punched its way through the open porthole....
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RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
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AT 8.20 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham honorary secretary, Brigadier A. L.
Kent Lemon, learnt from the Cromer coastguard that the S.S. Wimbledon, a ship of 1598 tons, had reported by radio that...
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CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Holyhead, Anglesey.—Just after mid- day on the 4th of May, 1947, the coast- guard reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide at Forth Towyn. and the motor life-boat A.E.D.
left her...