CREW OF SWEDISH VESSEL LANDED Stornoway, Hebrides. At 3.20 on the morning of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was ashore on Fladdachuain Island three miles west of Trodday Island....
Air Chief Marshal Sir Fredrick Bowhill, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Bar, died on the 12th of March, 1960, at the age of 79. He had a most distinguished career lasting some fifty years in the Merchant Navy, the Royal Naval Air Service...
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In the front row are the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Cardiff and the Mayor and Mayoress of Newport, and immediately behind them Colonel Watts Morgan, M.P., the Chief Constable of Cardiff and Captain P. H.
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On the gangway to the Boathouse, with presents for the men of the Owers Lightship from the people of Bognor Regis and Selsey. - View image in PDF
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Relief Brede: RNLB Enid of Yorkshire, a 33ft Brede for the RNLI's relief fleet, after her naming in Bridlington Harbour on June 22. photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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DESTROYED BY HEAVY SEAS Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 8.53 on the night of the 2nd of November, 1947, the coast- guard reported a distress flare seen off the harbour and it was thought that the motor fishing boat Girl Evelyn, of Deganwy, known to be...
At 7.15 A.M. on the 29th October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore about a mile north of Rattray Head. The crew of the No. 2 Motor Life-boat Alexander TullvcJt were at once summoned and the boat proceeded with all possible...
On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...
Cromarty.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 20th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore off Arder- sier and needed help. At 5.10 the life-boat James Macfee put out. The sea was rough, a gale...
Dover, Kent.—At 2.17 on the after- noon of the 13th of August, 1957, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned to say a motor boat was in difficulties alongside the South Goodwin light- vessel. The life-boat Southern Africa put out at 2.30 in a...