GOURDON, KlNCARDINESHIRE. —• One of the fishing boats of this port, while attempting to enter the harbour during a strong S.S.W. breeze with a rough sea, on the 24th February incurred considerable risk, and the Local Committee, knowing she...
At 5.35 P.M. on the 12th January, during a fierce N.E.
gale, the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore near the Reculvers.
The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriett were summoned and the boat...
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 20 th of July, 1956, the Chief Constable of Kirkwall re- ported that a German student had been landed by motor boat on the Island of Switha to study bird life two days earlier. It was known...
A northerly gale of extraordinary violence for the season of the year was experi- enced at Fraserburgh on the 7th Sep- tember, and the Life-boat Anna Maria Lee, after performing a gallant rescue, was for some time in considerable jeopardy....
At 5 A.M. on the 16th March, twenty of the fishing cobles put to sea to haul their crab pots, but two hours later the wind shifted to the N.E. and increased to a gale, bring- ing with it a very heavy sea. The boats at once ran for shelter,...
The King has awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to Coxswain Howard Primrose Cooper Knight, of the Ramsgat* life-boat, and Coxswain Edward Drake Parker, of the Margate life-boat "for gallantry and determination when ferrying troops...
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man D. Paynter, Coxswain R. Moore, Coxswain J. Sales and Mr. A. D. Mouat (see page 253). - View image in PDF
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