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Whitelink Bay and Gamrie Bay
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 24th June the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that two vessels were ashore near Cairnbulg. They were the steam drifters Whitelink Bay, of Fraserburgh, and Gamrie Bay, of Banff, which...
Life-Boat Helper Killed on Slipway
MR. JAMES PENTREATH, a shore helper at the Penlee life-boat station, was killed in an accident when the Penlee life-boat was being rehoused on the 30th Decem- ber, 1961. Mr. R. W. Blewett, another helper, was injured at the same...
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A Dinghy, Rona and Theodore
FOUR SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT SEARCH FOR BOY St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 1.34 on the morning of Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, a message was received from the signal station that the Alderney harbourmaster had reported that a boy was missing in...
Flamingo, of Stavanger (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...
Tenby Lifeboat House from Page 47
from page 47 parts of the old rotten timber beams was then begun.
Access bridge At the same time the old access bridge was removed, so that for a short time Tenby lifeboat house became an island. The new access bridge spans...
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Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.45 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1958, the harbour master passed on to the honorary secretary a message that a boy had fallen over the cliffs half a mile north-east of the Bailey lighthouse. At 7.5 the life-boat...
An Aeroplane's Rubber Dinghy
MAY 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Two pilots were reported to have baled out from an aeroplane, but nothing was found.
Just after the life-boat had returned a further report came that a pilot was in a rubber...
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Donaghadee, Co. Down. About 2.45 on the afternoon of the 5th July, 1961, the honorary secretary received a pre- liminary message from the coastguard that the police had reported two boys stranded on rocks off Millisle. This was confirmed...