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PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C....

On the after- noon of 28th May three boys were on the cliffs at Howth Head looking for birds' nests, when one of them slipped and fell about fifty feet into the sea.

One of his companions, a boy of ten, pluckily...

In the early morning of 23rd. September the Fraserburgh lifeboat was called out. Only the day before the coxswain had been called to the Navy, and Captain Andrew Stephen, honorary secretary of the station took command.

A...

RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Givil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on...

LONGHOPE, ORKNEY ISLANDS.—The s.s.

Victoria, of Sunderland, 1960 tons, bound from Hamburg for New York with a general cargo, was seen about five miles N.

of Dunnet Head Lighthouse with signals of distress,...

Following the success of last year's exhibition at the Templars Secondary School in Stepney an even more impressive show was put on this year, to coincide with London Life-boat Day. Pride of place was given to an I.R.B. Other exhibits...

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—At about 10.30 A.M., on the 7th February, two cobles, the Thomas and Richard and the Lady Morris, which had left the harbour for the fishing ground some six hours previously, were seen returning. The first boat, when about...