SURVIVORS ON RAFT Stromness, Orkneys. At 5 p.m. on 25th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a Mayday from the trawler Kingston Turquoise of Hull approximate position fourteen miles northnorth-...
APRIL 6TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A message was received at 7.50 in the morning from the Foreland coastguard that a large steamer was sinking six miles to the south-south-east and that a destroyer was in the neighbourhood. There was a...
AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...
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During a, strong W.N.W. gale with heavy sea on the 28th January the schooner Helen Hutcliesou, of Peterhead, at anchor in the Roadstead, showed signals of distress after an unsuccessful attempt by the vessel's crew to land in their own...
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has provided a new Life-boat for this place, the crew having lost confidence in the old boat, consequent on her having upset when in tow. The new one is 34 feet long, 8£ feet wide, and...
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Redcar, Yorkshire. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties off Skinningrove. At 4.30 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched on an ebbing...
It is ESTIMATED that there are some £20—£30 millions worth of foreign coins lying around this country. The banks are not interested, neither are the foreign exchange bureaux, in anything other than notes.
In 1977...
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The local fishing cobles put to sea on the morning of the 2nd November, but bad weather got up and by 7.15 A.M. all of them, except the Dorotkyand the Sunbeam, had returned.
At 9.30 A.M. a strong N.W. gale was blowing, with...
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KlNGSDOWNE AND NORTH DEAL. On 16th August the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, stationed at Kingsdowne, and the Mary Somerville, of North Deal, were launched early in the morning, signal guns having been fired by the East Goodwin and Gull Light...