Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 5.30 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1958, the motor mechanic told the coxswain that the cabin cruiser Olivier needed help off Skegness. At 5.50 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a heavy ground...
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 on the morning of the 17th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the whaler Brodrene Sae- vik of Alesund, Norway, had broken down with engine trouble three miles east of Noss Head....
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At i p.m. on 23rd August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an 18-foot yacht had capsized off Fontagary and three people were clinging to her. The life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was...
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At n.io a.m. on 30th August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that there was a sick boy on the isle of Colonsay. The life-boat Francis W. Wptherspoon of Paisley slipped her moorings at 11.35 in a fresh...
MAY 7TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 7.15 A.M. the coastguard reported that a keel boat three miles off was showing a distress signal. She was the Prosperity, of Whitby, with a crew of five. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was...
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Campbeltown, Argyllshire; and Donaghadee, Co. Down.
—On the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a man, together with his wife and two sons, were cruising off the coast of County Antrim in the...
At 8.47 P.M. on the 13th January, the Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles north-east of the station. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched and found that the vessel was the steam...
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Long tow in difficult conditions for Skegness and Humber lifeboats Skegness and Humber lifeboats were both involved in a long service when conditions became too severe for a classic, 1920s-built motor yacht on a delivery passage from Great...
THE AMERICAN obsession with health and physical fitness has spread, to a certain degree, to this country in recent years, resulting in the popularity of jogging as a sport for growing numbers of people.
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