Neil Marlow Pictured With His Wife Diane and Daughter Kylie and (Right) In Action On His Sailboard. - View image in PDF
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It is with deep regret that we have to record the death on February 14 of Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, KBE CB.
After a distinguished naval career embracing active service in two world wars and ending with the...
Category: Obituaries
At 10 P.M. on the night of the 15th October, during a whole N. by E. gale with a very heavy sea—one of the worst gales for some years—distress flares were seen to the S.W. of Moelfre Island. They came from the schooner Isallt, of Skibbereen,...
Children cut off by tide SWoth Scotland South Division Two children aged 12 and 5 years who had been cut off by the tide on a sandbank off Mawbray were rescued on 7 July 1991 by the prompt response of the Silloth lifeboat and John Boyle, a...
JUNE 23RD. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.
On the afternoon of the 23rd June the local doctor asked for the life-boat to convey a woman with acute appendicitis to Oban. A light N.W. wind was blowing and the sea was calm, but no...
South-West of England.
AT this conference delegates from twenty-two branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cornwall, Devonshire and Somerset met at Plymouth on the 22nd March. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Meetings
FLARES WERE SEEN Dungeness, Kent. At 8.35 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Dengemarsh. There was a moderate westerly breeze with a rough sea. At 9.30 the life-boat Mabel...
RABBIT-CATCHERS MAROONED Thurso, Caithness-shire.—Shortly after seven in the evening of the 22nd of December, 1947, information was received from Melness, Sutherlandshire, thirty-five miles to the eastwards, that two men were marooned on the...
On the 4th April, however, it was any- thing but fine weather, and the night was dark and tempestuous. Nevertheless, the ! Hope eventually succeeded in saving the crews of the three vessels and entered I Bideford Harbour in safety, with ...
SWANSEA.—The ketch Crowpill, of and from Bridgwater, bound for Britonferry, in ballast, stranded on Britonferry bar in a heavy N.W. stale and a very heavy sea, on the 2nd February. The Life-boat Wolverhampton was launched at 3.10 P.M., and...