The Die Manten afterwards drove ashore some miles to the southward of Montrose, and on the wreck being observed among the breakers on the 25th March the AdmiralFitzroy Life-boat stationed at Anstruther put off and found there was only one...
Clovelly, Devon. At 6.30 on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, a local fisherman called attention to the fact that a small motor boat, which had left the harbour on a routine visit to visit lobster pots, was no longer in sight. A...
Fig 5: Medal Of 1862 Obverse Die. - View image in PDF
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BOY SERIOUSLY ILL Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 5.10 p.m. on 28th August, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a six-year-old boy who was seriously ill to hospital at South Uist. The lifeboat R. A. Colby...
SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported down, north of St. Patrick’s Causeway, but a search by the life-boats, aeroplanes, and an R.A.F. boat was without result. and...
APRIL 2lST. - PORTRUSH, CO. DOWN.
Red rockets had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 3s..
A cheque for £i. I. has been received, made out to Lieut.-Colonel Sir William Hillary, Bt., who founded the Institution in 1824..
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Padstow: On the morning of January 26 the local fishing vessel Lamorna ran into difficulties when a rope got wrapped round her propeller about three quarters of a mile off Newquay Head.
She put out an anchor to await help... - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 4TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A British airman had baled out, but he was rescued by an R.A.F. launch. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
AUG. 12TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
The civic guard had reported that a man was in the sea and was urgently in need of help.
The life-boat put out with Mr. H. McCracken, a member of the committee, on board,...