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East Coast
VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.
Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...
Retirement
Commander S. H. Pinchin, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N.(RETD.), the present Deputy Chief Inspector, H.M. Coastguard, will retire on 3ist March, 1966. He will be succeeded by Lt.-Commander J. A. Douglas, M.B.E., R.N.(RETD.).
Commander...
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Agnes
MONTROSE, N.B.—On the 5th March, during a very heavy gale from the S.S.E., and an exceedingly heavy sea, accompanied by a snowstorm, the schooner Agnes, of Llanelly, bound thence to Newcastle, while running for Montrose Harbour, went ashore...
A Small Rowing Boat
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7 P.M. on the 3rd August the coxswain saw from the North Pier a small rowing boat about a mile out in the direction of the Newcome Sands. The weather was squally, with a W.N.W. wind and a choppy...
The Book of Flags
A SECOND edition has been published of The Book of Flags (Oxford Univer- sity Press, 155.), by Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V.C., D.S.O., and Mr. I. O. Evans, F.R.G.S., which was first published in 1950 and reviewed in The Life-boat for...
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The S.S. Flamma
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.18 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1951, the Gorleston coast- guard reported that the S.S. Flamma had sent a message asking for a doctor.
At 10.10 the...
The Hartlepool Yacht Kittiwake
Redcar, Yorkshire.—At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th of June, 1949, the life-boat Louisa Polden was launched for exercise in a west-north- west wind, with a swell, and saw the Hartlepool yacht Kittiwake passing, bound for Whitby...
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Torbay, Devon.—At 5.25 on the after- noon of the 24th of August, 1954, the Berry Head coastguard rang up to say that a boy had fallen over a cliff at Sharkham Point and that a rescue party had gone to his help. At 6.34 the coastguard...
A Rubber Tyre
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 3.47 on the after- noon of the 2nd of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that some people were drifting out to sea on a rubber tyre off Walcott. At 3.55 the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched. There was...
Widgeon
Ansrruther, Fifeshire. At 4.7 on the afternoon of the 6th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a cabin cruiser was firing red flares off the North Carr lightvessel.
A strong...