WHITE FOR DANGER At 6.32 p.m. on the same day, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran lay beached at Scratchells bay near the Needles; her crew were flying a white shirt at the mast and she was apparently damaged. There...
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. While a whole gale was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea on the night of the 2nd January, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Leander of Carnarvon, laden with meal from Paisley for...
On the 27th November, at 9 P.M., signals were shown by a vessel in Lowestoft North Roads. The No. 1 Life-boat proceeded out in tow of a steam-tug, and brought ashore the crew of 5 men from the schooner Zestoria, of Colchester, which vessel...
MEN FOUND IN ROWING BOAT AFTER SEARCH Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At three o'clock on the morning of the l l t h October. 1962. the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three fishermen had set off at eight o'clock the morning...
MKS. ASTLEY ROBERTS, the president and chairman of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has presented the Institution with a four-sided illu- minated electric clock, to stand on the roof of the old life-boathouse, which is now the...
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The medallists in close-up. From left to right Shane Coleman, George Williamson, James Dougal, Robert Gorman and Peter Heading.. - View image in PDF
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MUDEFORD inshore rescue boat and a R.A.F. helicopter were called out on I9th July to search for two aqualung divers who had failed to surface after diving between the Groyne, Hengistbury Head, and Christchurch Ledge buoy. The divers were...
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Dover, Kent.—At 1.58 early on the morning of the 25th of November, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was burning flares one mile east-north-east of the Varne lightvessel. At 2.20 the life- boat Greater London (Civil...
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