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December (1)
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the mornmg of the 7th October, 1942, a military aeroplane crashed into the sea about four miles, N.N.W. of Girvan. The sea was calm, with a light westerly wind. The Fraserburgh motor fishing boat Primrose,...
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Above: Sea Safety Manager Peter Bradley
Above: Sen safety manager Peter Bradley is interviewed by GMTV's Lara Logan at the launch of the Beach Rescue pilot. - View image in PDF
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A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (3)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
Westerook
Wicklow - At 10.55 P-m- on September, 1966, the m.v. Westerook, which had left Wicklow harbour that night bound for Cork, was reported aground on the North Arklow bank and had asked for the assistance of the lifeboat.
The...
Newland
GROOMSPORT.—On the 19th. May, at 10 A.M., the wind blowing hard from the N.E., the smack Newland, of Kilkeel, riding to her sole remaining anchor on a lee shore, in Ballyholme Bay, hoisted a signal of distress, and the Life-boat Florence...
NEW LIFEBOAT FUND EBOOK
APS Group (Scotland) Ltd has launched an eBook in aid of The Lifeboat Fund. The book commemorates the Eyemouth disaster that killed over 180 fishermen in 1881 – see: thelifeboatfund.publishingthefuture.info
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Guernsey Coast
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...
Sea Food:
Sea food: members of Largs Junior Chamber of Commerce appear remarkably unconcerned by what is clearly a severe case of rising damp during a recent dinner staged on the slipway of the lifeboat station. This chilling experience, devised... - View image in PDF
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R.A.F. Seaplanes and R.A.F. Launch No. 867
APRIL 7TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.35 in the morning a message came from the R.A.F.
that several of their seaplanes had broken adrift from their moorings, with their crews aboard, that they had not enough boats to face the storm,...