THE DRAW for the Shoreline Renault 5 car competition was made on October 28 by Dave Lee Travis on the Renault Car Stand at Earl's Court Motor Fair.
The lucky winner was Mr F. J. Hade of Wokingham and by now he should...
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FRASERBURGH.—The schooner Breeze, of and from Sunderland, bound for Dingwall with a cargo of coal, was observed to be in danger in Fraserburgh bay while a N.W. gale was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea on the 3rd February. The Life-boat...
COASTER ON ROCKS At 11.8 p.m. on 27th July, 1971, a German coaster was reported aground north of Staithes.The Runswick, Yorkshire, life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at 11.35. She found the motor vessel Anneliese K aground on Whitestone...
Rhyl, Flintshire. On the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the honorary secretary saw that a yacht, which had altered course on approaching Rhyl harbour entrance, appeared to be blown down wind out of control.
There was a...
CARNSORE, IRELAND.—On the morning of the 14th December, a mounted messenger arrived at the Life-boat station, stating that the services of the boat were required by a vessel on the Carrick Rocks, Greenore Point. The Life-boat Isis was...
Pictured top left Matthew Edgar receives his letter of thanks and a goody bag from Andrew Freemantle, chief executive, RNLI. - View image in PDF
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DECEMBER 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 7.20 in the evening the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the North Head at the harbour entrance. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a ground swell....
The steamer Lincoln, of Grimsby, belong- ing to the Great Central Railway Com- pany, stranded on the Hasboro' Sands on the 21st January. She was bound at the time from Antwerp to Grimsby with a general cargo and was carrying eighteen...
Margate, Kent - At 9.39 p.m. on nth July, 1966, a sick man on board the m.v.
Lady Sheena, near the east Margate buoy, required medical assistance. At 9.51 a further message requested that the lifeboat take a doctor to the...
LIFE-BOAT FINDS BODY THE recovery of charred wreckage and other evidence by the St. Helier, Jersey, life-boat Elizabeth Rippon—a 46-foot 9-inch Watson type —pointed to an explosion aboard the French yacht Marie Grillon reported missing on...