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JANUARY 1 8TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 12.37 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a German aeroplane had bombed the Out Skerries Lighthouse, that one of the people on the lighthouse had been wounded, and that...
Alanna
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.50 on the 29th of June, 1953, the Walton- on-the-Xaze coastguard rang up to say that the German steamer Dorte, of Stade. had taken in tow a yacht which had been in difficulties on the North East Gunfleet Sands...
Forthcoming Articles
IN the next number of The Lifeboat will appear accounts of the naming of the new Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat by Dame Margaret Lloyd George, and of the visit of the Margate Motor Life-boat to Calais for the unveiling of a memorial to...
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CHILD TO HOSPITAL Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.25 p.m. on 11 th October, 1965, the secretary of the hospital board told the honorary secretary that there was a child on the Isle of Sanday in need of urgent hospital treatment. The life-boat The...
Elizabeth
During a S.E.
gale on the 9th November signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Dogger Bank, and with all haste the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was launched to render assistance. When crossing the bar rough...
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In gully INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED from HM Coastguard by St Ives ILB station at 1531 on Thursday, July 28, that there were people cut off by the tide on the north side of Carbis Bay Beach. The assembly signal was made immediately and the ILB...
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Dover, Kent. On the evening of the 28th of June, 1958, the police reported that two boys had been cut off by the tide between South Foreland and St.
Margaret's Bay. At 8.55 the life-boat Southern Africa put out, taking...
Vala
The steamer Va la, of Grangemouth, whilst bound from Valencia to Hull with a cargo of oranges, was weather-bound off Gorleston on the 21st February. Being short of provisions they sent off a boat containing five men to procure some, but in...
Gustaf E. Ruter (1)
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...
Gustaf E. Ruter
Nov. 26TH. - LERWICK, AND AITH, SHETLANDS. At 2.45 A . M . a message was received at Lerwick from the coastguard that the Swedish steamer Gustaf E. Ruter, of Gotenburg, was under observation fourteen miles W.N.W. of Fair Island. A whole gale...