Norfolk maritime heroes and legends
by Mark Nicholls
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Mark Nicholls is an awardwinning journalist with the Eastern Daily Press and a critically acclaimed defence correspondent...
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SOLDIERS RESCUED Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.23 a.m.
on i9th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two soldiers were missing from a canoe east of St. Govans Head and at 2.38 the Tenby life-boat...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - at 9.5 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a yacht was firing flares seven miles south of the Needles. The Dutch vessel Advent was standing by.
The owner of the yacht had been...
Filey, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 2nd January, 1938, the local fishing cobles were caught at sea by bad weather. Some quickly came in, but others were several miles off, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...
MOTOR CRUISER FOUND BY AID OF SEARCHLIGHT Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down, had run out of fuel and was drifting...
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 12.5 OB the afternoon of the 15th of December 1956, a message was received thai the motor fishing vessel Rose VaUtf of Burnmouth was three miles east of Burnmouth with a broken fuel pipe and needed help. The...
The Palling No. 2 Life-boat, British Workman, was also launched at 9 A.M. on the 14th June, during a strong breeze from the N. and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the North Float Light-vessel. The boat made for the Happisburgh...
On the evening of 1 April, Skerries lifeboat crew members were requested to search for two missing fishermen from the Co Dublin town
Along with RNLI lifeboat crews from Clogher Head and Howth,...
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TWICE IN TWO DAYS Whitby, Yorkshire.—, Shortly before mid-day on the 14th of November, 1947, the owner of the local fishing vessel Pilot Me reported that he had been told by wireless that her engine had failed. He had some new bolts being-...
WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life-...
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