On the 4th March the morning was comparatively fine, and all the boats started for the fishing-grounds at about 6 o'clock. At about 10, however, a gale from S.E. suddenly rose accompanied by a heavy sea, compelling them to abandontheir...
ON the 29th August the s.s. Lynburn, of Workington, while bound from Cork to Whitehaven with a cargo of timber, struck a mine in the vicinity of the North Arklow Light Vessel. The Wicklow Motor Life-boat immediately proceeded to the...
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APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...
Surf 'n' turf beach footie Bournemouth beach 17 August 2002 Team event for groups of five people The great Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once said 'football's not a matter of life and death, it's much more important than...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the morning of the 14th of July, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a yacht with a crew of two was missing in the River Blackwater.
The message was passed by radio-...
Several of the fishing cobles were overtaken by a heavy northerly wind and sea on the 18th July and were unable to make harbour. As the weather continued very bad the whole of the next day it was considered advisable to send the Life-boat to...
Life-boats:- EXPENDITURE. £ ,. d. £ „. a.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account —Angle, Ballycotton, Berwick-on-Tweed, Campbel- town, Clacton, Courtmacsherry, Cromarty, Dover,...
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Swimming cow saved Crew members at Douglas lifeboat station, Isle of Man, have received a certificate of commendation from the RSPCA following their rescue of a cow, which had got stuck in a rocky cove at the bottom of a...
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, it was reported by the coxswain that he had heard the local fishing boat Courage calling for help on her wire-less. Ten minutes later the life-boat E.C.J.It, was...
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. About eight, in the morning of 12th June, 1940, two men and a boy, who were out fishing in a motor boat near the East Margate buoy, saw two aeroplanes fighting seven miles to the N.E., and one of the...
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