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FOOD TO MAROONED SHEPHERDS Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of April, 1947, word was received from the relatives of two shepherds, marooned on Mingalay Island by the bad weather, that the men's food...
Rebecca
Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 14th of January. 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a small cabin cruiser with a crew of three was aground on the north side of the bar at the entrance to Irvine har- bour. At 6.8,...
De Meeuw
OCTOBER 13TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At noon two Belgians were fishing between Berry Head and Hope’s Nose when the engine of their motor trawler De Meeuw broke down. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with rain squalls and steep, breaking seas....
Sea Breeze
NUMBED WITH COLD Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. — At 4.5 in the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Sea Breeze, of Aber- ayron, was making distress signals about a quarter of a mile...
Income and Expenditure.—1st April to 31st December, 1855
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Saga
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Lt-Cdr Roy Portchmouth Staff Inspector (Operational Developments Trials and Sea Training)
Lt-Cdr Roy Portchmouth, staff inspector (operational developments, trials and sea training).. - View image in PDF
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Brittania
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 17th of December, 1949, the local fishing coble Brittania, manned by a crew of three, was at sea. It was very rough and there was a north- westerly gale; conditions were so bad in fact,...
Vindelecia
MARCH 8TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 8.30 P.M. it was reported by the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station that a vessel was ashore N.E. of the lighthouse. As it seemed likely that the vessel would become high and...
Helicopters
In the House of Commons in April the Secretary of State for Defence was asked how many times in the last three years the helicopter then at Manston, Kent, had been used to assist in sea rescue operations, and how many people had been rescued...
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