Holy Island, Northumberland.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the nine-ton auxiliary yacht Mermaid, of Poole, was drifting towards the Ridge, west of Holy Island Harbour, and at 2.16 the...
FIREMEN TAKEN TO MOTOR BARGE Margate, Kent. At 2.26 on the morning of the 18th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen four and a half miles north-east of the coastguard look-out. The...
ON 27th October, when the motor life-boat from Pwllheli was out on practice in half a gale, with a heavy sea running, she was hailed by the steamer Marjorie, of Liverpool, anchored in St. Tudwal's Roads. The Marjorie was on her way to...
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Whitehllls, Banff shire. — At 9.30 in the morning of the 21st of November, 1951, a fishing boat wirelessed that another fishing boat, the Speedwell, of Macduff, was in difficulties twenty miles north-north-west of Whitehills and at 10.5 the...
Escort EYEMOUTH DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY was informed by HM Coastguard at 1608 on Tuesday February 14 that a number of fishing boats were about to attempt to enter harbour and, as sea conditions in Eyemouth Roadstead were very dangerous,...
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that H.M.S. Urania had reported a yacht in need of help a mile and a half north- east of Weymouth harbour. The life- boat William and...
THERE are still many persons in this country, although they are doubtless a diminishing number, who maintain that the education ol the lower classes of society is injurious to them, as unfitting them for the station in which they were born,...
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MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...
Patron Emil Guyot, a new 'a/1 seasons' lifeboat from France, will be stationed at Belle lie. Photograph by courtesy of Dag Pike. - View image in PDF
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YACHT ADRIFT IN ROUGH SEA Margate, Kent.—At 10.46 in the morn- in of the 20th of September, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a Nor- wegian steamer had reported through the North Foreland Radio Station that three men were adrift in a...