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The female shipwright
by Mary Lacy Review by Joanna Bellis
This is a tale of that old cliché, running away to sea. The difference here is that the escapee is an...
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Boadicea
At 9.30 P.M. on the 26th September a vessel was ob- served making signals of distress on the Barber Sands. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were immediately assembled and the boat launched. She found the steam drifter Boadicea,...
Vernicos Giorgos
Tugs aground ST ANNE'S COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of St David's lifeboat station at 2020 on Sunday October 18, 1981, that the tug Vernicos Giorgos, with two other tugs in tow, had a rope round her propeller and was...
June and Capella
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 1st of September, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a small fishing boat had engine trouble a quarter of a mile west of Portland Bill. At 10.55 the life-boat William and Clara...
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Islay, Hebrides. At 8.15 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1960, the local medical officer told the honorary secretary that he needed help urgently to convey a seriously ill patient to hospital on the mainland. Owing to dense fog the air...
Progress and Launch Out
Scarborough, Yorkshire On the afternoon of the 24th February several local fishing boats were at sea. Theweather got bad and all except the Launch Out and Progress returned to harbour. By 4 P.M. conditions were very bad, and a big sea was...
Mla Unit Trust Management
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Torbay, Devon. — At 8.10 in the evening of Sunday, the 17th of July, 1949, the coastguard informed the life- boat station that a small boy had fallen down the cliff and a rescue party had found him, but that it was impossible for them to...
An Aeroplane (14)
FEBRUARY 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 3.40 P.M. an aeroplane crashed in the sea about two miles N.E. of the life-boat station, and life-boatmen standing by at the boathouse saw part of it above water. Sevenminutes later the...
Fishing Cobles (1)
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—While some of the fishing cobles were at sea on the 12th May, the wind, which was blowing in a north-easterly direction, freshened and the sea became rough. As it was probable that some of the boats would require...