Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 12.45 on the morning of the 9th of February, 1954, the Nell's Point coastguard reported that the S.S. Ivor Isabel, of London, and the S.S. Aase Maersk, of Nyborg, Denmark, had been in collision between...
Boulmer, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 12th July, 1961, con- cern was felt for two local fishing cobles Sea Flower and Brighter Dawn, which were overdue from fishing. The crews of other boats had reported on returning that...
Ploughing matches with vintage tractors was the idea of Gordon Bell, honorary secretary of Kilrea branch, Northern Ireland. The first, held in 1976, raised £.104, but unfortunately heavy rain in 1977 meant very few spectators so that,... - View image in PDF
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More than 150 services of thanksgiving have been held around Britain and Ireland. In Norwich Cathedral the RNLI standard is carried to the altar. Photograph by Courtesy of Eastern Daily Press. - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 18TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. A south-westerly gale was blowing up the Bristol Channel, with the heaviest seas that had been seen for several years, when at 3.45 in the afternoon the naval officer-in-charge reported that phoenix 194 -...
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At five o'clock on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the Walton Bay signal station rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds lightvessel had parted one of her cables and needed help. Seven...
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1955, a man at Kinsale telephoned to say that the motor fishing boat Inis Caol, of Dublin, had left for the fishing grounds the previous day, with a crew of four, but had...
JANUARY 5TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
At 12.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel apparently in distress. A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a choppy sea and showers of sleet. The motor life-boat...
DECEMBER 25TH. - LOWESTOFT SUFFOLK.
At 3.45 P.M. a man told the life-boat, coxswain that a small boat was in difficulties in the South Roads, and this was reported to the naval duty officer who kept the boat under...
AUGUST 30TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon of the 29th of August, three men put out in a ship’s sailing boat from Herne Bay. Later in the day she was reported to be drifting but to have refused a tow from a motor...