AT 8.28 on the evening of 16th October, 1967, the coastguard told the acting honorary secretary of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr. C. A. Perry, that a red flare had been sighted at the entrance to the River Blackwater. The maroons...
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On the 16th January, the schooner Rook, of Liverpool, in making the Harbour of Dundalk, struck on the North Bull shoal, near the bar of the river. The Dnndalk life-boat was quickly launched, and proceeded to her aid, putting a portion of the...
On the 24th March the sea was very heavy from the early morning, and the coble Two Brothers, of North Sunderland, was the only one to go out, her lines having been shot overnight, and the crew were very anxious to get them. About noon the...
Mothers and aunts . . . (seated, I. to r.) Miss Nellie Tart (Doris' mother), Miss Dorothy Tart, Miss Amelia Tart (Doris' aunt); (standing, I. to r.) Miss Lottie Tart, Mrs Deer, Miss Madge Tart (Doris' aunt) many years later to be... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 1994 Howard Biggs, honorary secretary and treasurer of Broadstairs branch since 1952 and also box secretary from 1949. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1963, a Gold badge in 1974 and a bar to the Gold badge in 1985.
Category: Obituaries
On the 15th February at about 5 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from W.8.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather with rain, the ketch R. T. B., of Bridgwater, laden with flour from Plymouth for Cardiff, was seen about two...
FIVE Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place in Scotland during the past summer, at Girvan, Port Patrick and Kirkcudbright on the West Coast, and Cromarty and Dunbar on the East Coast. At the first four of these Cere- monies the Duke of...
Category: Inaugurations
After discussion and further reflection, Dr Dunning wrote again:
Despite all my experience in GP surgeries and hospital settings I was surprised how affected I was by the experience. I’ve had some thoughts since that might...
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AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakulla, of Los Angeles, which had...
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...