JANUARY 15TH- HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. Distress signals had been reported, thought to be from an enemy aeroplane which had come down after being hit during an attack on shipping, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £18 2s.
DECEMBER 5-6 TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. AND HARTLEPOOL. DURHAM.
At 5 P.M. a message was received from the Port War Signal Statlon at South Gare, that a vessel was ashore on the North Gare and might have to be abandoned. A...
Mr and Mrs Derek Hull, family of the Kilkeel lifeboat's donor go afloat after the naming ceremony - report on opposite page.. - View image in PDF
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FEBRUARY MEETING CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Shortly before 6 in the evening of the 6th January, 1942, it became known that an Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea in Tremadoc Ray. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
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The sailor's medallion reproduced on this page—it was found on the Suffolk coast—is inscribed 'For God And Our Sailors—Pray For Us'.. - View image in PDF
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Where the rocks and the tide race meet off the Lizard seen from the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat. (See page 240 'Race Casualty'.). - View image in PDF
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LOSSIEMOUTH, MORAYSHIRE. At 11.25 in the morning of the 21st of December, 1944, the coastguard saw a Mosquito aeroplane crash in the sea near Covesea Skerries, two or three miles north-west of Lossiemouth. The Institution’s auxiliary...
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.50 on the night of the 30th of August, 1956, a message was received that the local fishing boat Dorothy was calling for help on her wireless. At 10.15 the no. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Heptcorth was laun- ched in a slight...
OCT. 27TH - TORBAY, DEVONSHIRE.
It was reported to the senior naval officer, Weymouth, by an observer on a R.A.F.
aeroplane, engaged on reconnaisance over West Bay, that a motor boat was drifting about ten...
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the mornmg of the 7th October, 1942, a military aeroplane crashed into the sea about four miles, N.N.W. of Girvan. The sea was calm, with a light westerly wind. The Fraserburgh motor fishing boat Primrose,...
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