When Douglas and Pamela Smith, owners of the Stromness Hotel in Stromness. got married in November they decided to hold the reception in their own hotel! Already having a plentiful supply of 'candlewick bedspreads, toasters and... - View image in PDF
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On the 14th September, the brig Anne, f Plymouth, and the schooner Betsey, of Peterhead, during a heavy gale from the S.W., were compelled to anchor in an unsafe position near Holy head; on the 15th, the wind shifting, they dragged their...
CADGWITH, CORNWALL.—The full-rigged ship, Wandsbek, of Hamburg, struck on the Dales rocks at the Lizard Point, on the 26th May. Bookets were fired fromthe signal station, the Life-boat Minnit Moon wai launched at 4.5 P.M. in response to them...
The coxswain of the Life-boat Beauchamp, while on the watch at 3.30 A.M., on the 16th September, saw the sidelights of a vessel which was apparently stranded on the Barber Sand. About ten minutes afterwards signals of distress were shown;...
VERY ROUGH SEA At 6.45 a.m. on 29th November, 1965, three motor fishing vessels were reported to be still at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched at 7.5, an hour before high...
TWO LIFE-BOAT MEN INJURED Falmouth, Cornwall. At 11.53 p.m.
on 7th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a speed boat with three people on board was missing. The boat had last been seen twelve miles south of Falmouth....
At 11.2 A.M.
on the 21st February, the coastguard reported that a number of fishing boats belonging to Pittenweem were making for shelter owing to the bad conditions of wind and sea. A strong S.W. gale was blowing with a...
YACHT WITH BROKEN TILLER Fowey, Cornwall.—At 8.30 in the evening of the 20th of July, 1947, the Looe coastguard reported that a yacht was anchored in a very dangerous position between Looe Island and Hannafore Point and that she would break...
APRIL MEETING EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. About seven in the evening of the 21st of March, 1945, two boys, aged 17 and 15, put off from the shore in a home-made canoe. The sea was calm, with some fog. About half a mile off shore, opposite the...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seriously sick person to Lochboisdale, as the local airport was fogbound. At 11.25 the life-boat Lloyd's put to...