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Nimrod
Plymouth, Devon. At 1.53 early on the morning of the 5th December. 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a ship had drifted danger- ously close to the rocks near the Mount Batten look-out. The assembly signal was made...
None (5)
At 11.9 p.m. on 5th March, 1967, information was given that three men who were climbing to the west of South Stack were overdue. Their car had been found in the South Stack car park. The Holyhead C.R.E. Company and mountain rescue teams had...
Audacity (1)
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
Appledore Life-Boat Returns to Her Station
Appledore Life-Boat Returns To Her Station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bjornstjerna Bjornson
SOTJTHPORT, LAKCASHIKE.—Shortly before 12 o'clock on the night of the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the W.N.W., rockets were fired, and a bright light was shown by a vessel in distress.
With the utmost speed...
Heather Pet
On the 3rd December the Foreland coastguards telephoned to the honorary secretary that they were watching a steamer which was trying to tow a smaller motor vessel into Spithead. The tow- rope had parted twice. Later they tele- phoned again,...
Our Laddie
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.15 A.M. on the 28th May, 1939, a message was received from Gunfleet Lighthouse through the coastguard that a vessel had gone aground on the Gunfleet Sands. A moderate N.N.W. breeze wasblowing, with a slight...
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Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WELLS, NORFOLK.—The new Life-boat placed on this Station by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and the cost of which has been defrayed from the legacy left to the Institution by the late Miss CHARLOTTE NICHOLLS of Finsbury Park, was...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (1)
Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At about 10.15 on the night of the 10th of June, 1948, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port St. Mary, Port Erin, and Douglas life- boat stations that an aeroplane, with eight...