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Below: London's Police Relied on Thames Specials,
Below: London's police relied on Thames Specials, volunteers with a good knowledge of boat handling. Three steam launches were stationed at the pier, the one pictured here was named Chowkidar after an Indian night watchman.. - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Red flares had been seen, but nothing could be found, and it was later reported that an RAF. rescue boat had picked up four airmen. - Rewards, £22 14s. 3d. (See Skegness, “Accounts of...
A Steamer (13)
MARCH 13TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
An enemy aeroplane was seen to drop a bomb on the stern of a steamer, and although the life-boat arrived on the sceneonly four minutes after the steamer had sunk, she found no sign of the...
Maria Rose
MARCH 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An Italian steamer Maria Rose of Genoa, had struck a mine and sunk eighteen miles off Lowestoft. Two of her boats got away from her and both reached shore without help. - Rewards, £22...
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MARCH 9TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
An object, reported to look like adrifting raft, had been reported, but it was found to be a tree trunk. - Rewards, £16 14s. 6d..
Obituary
ADMIRAL JOHN HALLIDAY CAVE, C.B., V.P.—The Institution has sustained a grievous loss through the death of Admiral Cave, who passed away at his residence, 17, Palace Gate, Kensington, on Sunday, the 31st March, in his 86th...
Category: Obituaries
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Out of the gloom
A fisherman lay injured onboard the world’s largest trawler, 200 miles offshore of County Galway
It was just after 7pm on 23 January 2010 and the crew of the 144m trawler Annelies Ilena had caught 50 tonnes of scad (horse...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (From Page 263)
Lifeboat Services (from page 263) the whaleboat which had drifted further to leeward to within about 100' from the cliffs near the Cote du Nord hotel.
His crew managed to get a grapnel into the whaleboat and they towed...
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