At 12.45 p.m. on 20th August, 1969, it was learnt that there was an injured man at Ballard head and that another man was stranded on the cliff. At 12.56 the life-boat R.L.P.
was launched in a fresh south westerly wind. It...
Ex pilot cutter HARTLAND COASTGUARD received a message from the British coaster Candourity at 0255 on Monday September 3, 1979, reporting the sighting of a red flare and a flashing light from a yacht some 13 miles north by east of Trevose...
Mr. Rajagopalan Sudarsanam, of Atheling Grove, South Queensferry, West Lothian, has been enrolled as a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution's Queensferry IRB crew.
With the possible exception of Atlantic...
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Newhaven, Sussex.—At 9.9 on the night of the 16th of January, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that flashing lights had been seen between three and four miles south-by-west of Newhaven.
There was a fishing vessel in this...
TWO SWIMMERS TAKEN OFF ROCK Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 28th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two young men were in difficulties after swimming from Lands End to a rock known as the...
Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the morn- ing of the 4th of April, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that two vessels had been in collision one mile north-east of Spit buoy. The life-boat St. Mary's, on temporary duty at the station, was...
On. the 3rd December, during a strong W.S.W. gale, the steam lighter William Yule, of Kirk- caldy, whilst bound from Kirkcaldy to Leith, was unable to make way against the gale and drove down into Largo Bay.
Signals of...
Peel and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—• 23rd July. A fishing boat had not returned to Peel with the fleet, but she was found by a trawler which joined the life-boats in the search.—Rewards, Peel, £10 4s. 6d; Port Erin, £7 2s..
MCH. 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer had collided with a trawler seventeen miles N.N.E. of the Humber. She was badly damaged and began to sink, but her crew were rescued by the trawler. - Permanent paid crew :...
'Currie explores the enormity of the beautiful and the placidness of the wild.
Within this dichotomy he engages with the horizon as a stablising force to which the viewer steers a path - an imaginary line between air... - View image in PDF
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