APRIL 5TH. - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE.
At 5 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore at Balcomie Bay. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.25 A.M. the motor life-boat Nellie...
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 10.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a small vessel drifting on to the Skerries. A strong easterly breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor lifeboat John and Mary...
MARGATE. — On the 11th April the coastguard having reported a large steamer ashore on the main, the Life-boat Quiver No. 1 was launched at about 3 A.M., and found the steamer European, of Liverpool, bound from London for Antwerp, with a...
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On the morning of the 20th March the Rosslare life-boat again went out to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Teazer, of Goole, which had struck on the North Bar. It was blowing a gale from the E.N.E., and there was a heavy sea on at the...
THE Life-boat Calendar for 1931 is now ready. In previous years the calendars have reproduced paintings of Life-boat rescues. This year it is the portrait of a Life-boatman—a reproduction of a pen and ink drawing of the late Coxswain William...
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BOY RESCUED AFTER CLIFF FALL New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 1st June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs between Llangranog and Yyns Lochtyn, and that...
OCTOBER 30TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 6.49 A.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two miles east of Sheringham, and a few minutes later the coastguard rang up again to say that he...
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
Review by Sarah Bass
As Summer draws to a close, Carruthers is stuck in London at his Home Office job while his friends socialise outside of the city....
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THE " season " of the Life-boat Saturday Collections throughout the country opened this year under very favourable auspices, and the Committees, greatly encouraged by the excellent certificate recently given to the movement by the...
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