BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.—On the 11th January, at 10.30 P.M., the passenger-ship Lough Sunart, of Glasgow^struck on Skulmartin Eeef. The night was clear, with light wind and smooth sea. Signals of distress were shown from the vessel, and the...
Lord Chesham, former Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, acting on behalf of the Queen, presented the British Empire Medal to Coxswain Sidney Cann, of Appledore, at the Ministry of Transport on yth...
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19-hour service Dunbar lifeboat was involved in a 19-hour struggle to recover the stricken vessel Coromandel after it became stranded 25 miles east of Eyemouth in Berwickshire. The lifeboat crew endured conditions so rough that one member...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 4.28 a.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been sighted off the S.W. Girdler buoy.
There was a fresh north-westerly wind, a moderate sea, and it was one hour...
Plymouth, Devon - At 10.10 p.m. on ist April, 1967, a yacht was reported to be in difficulties inshore and dangerously close to rocks near the Royal Western yacht club. She appeared to be trying, without success, to pick up a mooring.The...
Padstow, Cornwall - At 9.28 p.m. on ist April, 1967, red flares were reportedat a position eight miles north of Killan Head. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick proceeded at 10 o'clock in a strong south westerly wind and a choppy sea. It...
Last May Ella Brett from North Yorkshire undertook a sponsored cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats.. - View image in PDF
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Newcastle, County Down, in a Force 9 to 10 southeasterly as the station's Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay surfs into the harbour entrance at a speed considerably above that which her designer intended.
The photograph was... - View image in PDF
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