Weymouth, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of October, 1955, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the submarine Tijger- haai, of the Royal Netherlands Navy, had grounded in Weymouth Bay.
Half an...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.43 on the afternoon of the 1st of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Baalbek, of Oslo, had hit the Great Nore Tower Forts. One of the towers had collapsed, and a number of men from the...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.55 on the night of the 9th of March, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small vessel was firing flares at the south-east end of Gugh Island. At 11.10, when the life-boat Guy and Clare...
THE Institution is holding a competition for the best photograph of a life-boat, a life-boat station, or an actual rescue.
The competition is open to members of life-boat crews, branch members and officials, and members of...
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MR. Duncan Darroch, a regular and most generous supporter of the Institu- tion in Mount Cook, New Zealand, who has a life-boat collecting box there which brings the Institution appreciable sums of money, recently sold one of his pictures to...
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Buckle, Whitehills, Banffshire; and Cromarty, Cromartyshire. —• At one o'clock on the morning of the 5th of September, 1956, the Peterhead coastguard telephoned that a Sea- hawk aircraft wras missing on a flight from Lossiemouth. The...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At midnight on the 1st of August, 1957, the police telephoned to say that the motor launch Golden Galleon had not returned from a plea- sure cruise up the river. There were 180 passengers on board. The...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the morning of the 9th of October, 1957, a message was received from theAlderney harbour master that three men had put out in a boat to go fishing and had not returned. They had been last seen at six...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the 4th of November, 1957, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a steamer anchored in Sandown Bay appeared to be dragging. The life-boat crew were alerted, and half an hour...
Canter, Norfok. — At 7.40 in the morning of. the 15th of June, 1948, continuous short blasts on a steam whistle could be heard to the north-east, and five minutes later the Great Yar- mouth coastguard telephoned that a tanker was...