About an hour before sunset, in misty weather, on the llth September a foreign schooner went ashore on the Barber Sand, and the Cockle Lightship commenced to fire guns. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy were assembled, and the boat...
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 16th of February, 1960, one of three local fishing boats which were at sea, the Provider A., wirelessed that she expected to be off the harbour about 2.15 in the afternoon. As the weather was becoming...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, a message came from the Warden Point Look-out that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles off Shoeburyness.
At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London,...
HRH Princess Michael of Kent boards Eastbourne's new Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames after the naming ceremony. The Princess then took a trip afloat aboard the lifeboat. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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Almost 20 years after Ms aircraft had been shot down in the Channel, on I2th June, 1944, a former German prisoner- of-war wrote to the British naval at- tache in Bonn to trace the commanding officer of the British escort vessel which had...
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Sunderland, Co. Durham. — At 3.30 P.M. on the 17th August, 1938, the deputy dockmaster telephoned to the life-boat coxswain that a small boat was in distress. A N.W. gale was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat Edward and...
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, proposes to form a stamp club in order to sell foreign postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution. She would be very glad to...
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ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th February, it having been reported that a vessel was in a very dangerous position at Morte, the Broadwater Life-boat was launched and proceeded to the place, a dense fog prevailing at the time. On arriving at the spot,...
Wicklow.—At 5.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1948, the lightkeeper at Wicklow Head reported that a boy had fallen from the nearby cliffs into the sea, and the motor life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched at 5.59. A light easterly breeze...
Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.27 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1955, the motor vessel City of Ghent, of Dublin, wirelessed that she had run ashore about three miles north-east- by-east of Lizard, but had later re- floated and was...