Search for missing divers The 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Hugh William Viscount Gough was launched from Dunbar in the same search for the missing divers as the Eyemouth lifeboat on 6 October 1990 (see previous page), and the efforts of...
Extended lifeguard season saves the dayBeach lifeguards at Perranporth were surprised to see a horse and rider galloping up to them on the afternoon of 26 October 2003 Two horse riders had been enjoying a sunny autumn day on Perran Sands...
JUNE 6TH. - MONTROSE ANGUS, AND GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE. At one in the morning the Montrose station heard from the coastguard that a convoy was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes thirteen miles E. 3/4 N. from Scurdyness, and at six minutes...
Watford branch has raised more than £10,000 since it was re-formed in 1980. During its 1982 lifeboat week £2,091.23 was raised and hard at work, with the support of Council/or Ted Amy, are (I to r) Chris Rawling, Vic Curdwell,... - View image in PDF
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Hastings, Sussex.—At 10.36 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making distress signals a quarter of a mile off Castle Rocks. At 10.55 the life-boat M.T.C.
was...
AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.
He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...
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This copy of a Viking ship, the Hugin, came from Denmark to Broadstairs at the beginning of the summer to commemorate the landing of Hengist and Horsa. She was taken over by the Daily Mail, and on her visits to other towns made collections... - View image in PDF
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The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. — At 1.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the Scarweather Lightvessel had reported a tug one mile east of the lightvessel making S.O.S. signals. The life-boat William...
She capsizes bow over stern and floats upsidedown (lower insetkinti! the crew activate the inflatable ba. - View image in PDF
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Dover, Kent. At 9.36 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of February, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boat was burning flares off Shakespeare cliff to the west of Dover. At 9.55 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a moderate south...