THURSO.—On the 8th of January, at 8 A.M., the ketch Crest, of Wick, lying at anchor in Scrabster Roads, showed a signal of distress during a very heavy N.
gale and a tremendous sea. The Charley Lloyd Life-boat proceeded to...
Phantom jet crew ON FRIDAY, December 5,1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station at 1400 that an aircraft had crashed into the sea and that two parachutists had been seen.
The 37'...
This interesting picture sent in by Mr A. S.C.
Walker, of Albert Walker & Son, of Redcar, Yorkshire, shows the late Mr Stanley Walker selling the old Redcar lifeboat Fifi and Charles by public auction on Redcar beach on... - View image in PDF
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THE committee of management greatly regret the death, on 28th July, at the age of 72. of their colleague Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Bland Dixon, K.C.B. Sir Robert concluded a dis- tinguished career in the navy by serving as engineer-in...
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THE twenty-fourth Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 8th May last at Willis's Rooms, His Grace the DDKE OF MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society, in the Chair. The noble President, with great clearness, in an excellent...
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THE Flag Officer Air (Home) has sent a gift of £50 from his Benevolent Fund and in doing it says that he wishes to mention in particular work done by the Institution's stations at Portrush and Padstow. These stations have been out...
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FISHING BOAT BURNS FLARES Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.10 on the evening of Sunday the 15th September, 1963, the coxswain was told by the coastguard and the police that distress flares had been seen three and a half miles south-east of the...
JULY 19TH. - FISHGUARD , PEM-BROKESHIRE. A rubber dinghy with the survivors of an aeroplane’s crew had been reported twenty-nine miles N.N.W. of Fishguard, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard before she reached the position...
At 7.35 A.M. on the 19th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel was on the Mixen Reef, flying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were at once assembled and the boat launched, but just after she had taken the...
Below L-R:The Solomon Browne in her heyday. - View image in PDF
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