Newhaven, Sussex.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 14th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide three hundred yards east of Splash Point, Seaford. Eight minutes later the life-boat Cecil...
As we turned back our clocks at the end of October, many of us braced ourselves for the arrival of St Jude: a storm named after the patron saint of desperate cases
It was expected to be the...
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To Mr. RICHARD BINNY, upon his resignation after 15 years' service as Honorary Secretary of the Padstow Branch, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
To the Rev. Canon GOLDSMITH, upon his resignation after...
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Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.40 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor one mile south of the Sow and Pig buoy. At 8.54 the life-boat City of Bradford...
At 4.45 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a red dinghy seemed in trouble off Penlee.
Meanwhile, Penlee fog station reported that the dinghy was in danger of being carried on to the rocks. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary...
A severe blow Late afternoon at Polzeath, Cornwall, on 28 August 2005 RNLI lifeguards spotted a young woman being helped out of the black and white flagged area. While surfing, the woman had taken a blow to the back of her head from a...
MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—Three local fish- ing boats were at sea on the morning of the llth of November, 1952, in deteriorating weather, and at 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a heavy sea with a northerly gale blowing....
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 5.45 in the evening of the 21st of June, 1950, the Porthscatho coastguard telephoned that the local motor pleasure boat MacCoy needed help. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood,...
The schoooner Happy Return, which left Sunderland with coals, was sometime since towed into Dundee by the Hull steamer Queen, with only one hand (a lad named WILLIAM CHARLTON) on board. It seems that after leaving Sun- derland, the schooner...
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