'My thoughts about the beach have changed. I used to think it was just a fun place to be but now I know there are hidden dangers as well.' These are the words of a teenager from inner London who had the chance to take part in one of...
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Margate, Kent.—At about 9.50 A.M.
on the 25th April the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht was introuble and was drifting ashore. She was the San Toy, of London, bound there from Ramsgate, with a man and a boy on...
Ahoy there! It was all hands to the deck when members of Royslon and District branch manned a stall at their local late-night shopping festivities last Christmas. It was a very cold night with temperatures around freezing but the small but... - View image in PDF
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MONTROSE and ANSTRUTHER, N.B.—On the afternoon of the 23rd March, the brig Die Manten, of Arendal, Norway, bound thence to Leith with a cargo of pit props, arrived off Lunan Bay. The captain and 2 men put off from the vessel in a boat to try...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
NOVEMBER 20TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 10.45 in the morning the life-boat crew were assembled, as anxiety was felt for the motor fishing coble Gratitude, which was at sea. A north-east gale was blowing, with heavy broken water. The...
Harbour rescue saves unconscious manMost of Oban was safely tucked up in bed when the lifeboat crew's pagers sounded at 12.50am on Monday, 16 April. Clyde Coastguard had received a report of a man in the water just off South Pier, in...
Amble, Northumberland. At 3.38 on the morning of the llth July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a red flare had been seen near Snab Point, Drudridge Bay. There was little wind and a slight sea. The tide had begun...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — On the night of the 6th August the yacht Mona, of Heswall, bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of three, was seen to be riding at anchor in a dangerous position about a mile out of Llandudno bay. A strong...
On the 29th March, 1859, a sloop was observed driving towards the shore in Abergele Bay, North Wales. The Rhyl life-boat belonging to the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was quickly con- veyed by horses to the bay, and launched.
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