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Fishing Boats
— Several fishing boats were making for the harbour during a S.
wind, on the morning of the 18th May, and as a very heavy sea was breaking across the entrance, it was evident that the boats would encounter some amount of...
Pappillon
JULY 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire about five miles south-west of Shoreham. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 11.25 P.M. the motor...
Teresa
WORTHING.— On the 10th February, at about 5.50 P.M., the schooner Teresa,, of Weymoata, bound from Guernsey to London, with granite, was observed drivj ing on shore. A strong gale of wind from the S. was blowing and the sea was...
Three Knot Marvel
The launching ceremony and trial run of a four-foot scale model of the Howth life-boat took place recently at Baldoyle. The builder, twenty years old Derick Riley of "Alverno", Strand Road, Baldoyle, Dublin, is a science student at...
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OCTOBER 19TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An airman had dropped by parachute from a Mosquito aeroplane, but came down on land. - Rewards, £10 19s..
Grania
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.30 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1953, the life-boat signalman reported that a fishing boat had taken in tow a dis- masted yacht, the Grania, of Ports- mouth, and needed the help of the life-boat. The weather...
Thistle
Buckie, Banffshire - At 3.35 p.m. on 14th December, 1968, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties four to five miles north east of Buckie. The life-boat Laura Moncur slipped her moorings at 3.45 in a south south...
Tango
Hastings, Sussex - At 6 p.m. on 13th April, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been reported south east of the life-boat station. At 6.9 the life-boat Fairlight was launched. The tide was flooding. The...
Lady Maude
Redcar, Yorks. At 9.45 a.m. on the 26th of June, 1965, a fishing coble was reported in difficulties about two miles away in a rough sea. The life-boat Aguila Wren launched at 9.50 on a flooding tide and soon came up with the coble Lady Maude...
Apollo Associates
NEW Sonar breakthrough *"--y Figure I. Shallow water with Sand bank hazard.
Early detection of shelving bottoms and rock ledges.
Loudspeaker warns you up to 100 seconds before grounding. Figure 2....
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