Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6 P.M. on the 6th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a...
Stromness, Orkneys.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of December, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a landing barge had run ashore at Ness Beacon. At 7.18 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...
Payback time Sailor Graham Wills has always supported the RNLI but, as he tells Rory Stamp, a rather unpleasant experience led him to go a little further for the charity When the flashing blue light appeared through the darkness, Graham...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.31 on the evening of the 20th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that an open boat with an out- board motor had broken down and was drifting about two miles off...
Margate, Kent. At 2.22 on the after- noon of the 9th October, 1961, thecoastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a rowing boat were being blown out to sea a mile and a half off Epple Bay and were waving a towel attached to...
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SOME 300 representatives from government and industry in 21 countries attended a New York conference in October, 1970, to discuss ways of providing 100% search and rescue coverage for vessels needing help on the high...
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OCTOBER 5TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Red rockets had been reported, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that a bombing aeroplane had come down on the land. - Rewards, £14 4s. 6d..