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FISHING BOAT BROKEN DOWN Flamborough, Yorkshire.—-At one o'clock in the morning of the 9th of May, 1947, the Bridlington coastguard reported that a fishing boat was over- due and the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albino, Whitley was...
Fishing Cobles (1)
WHITBY.—On the afternoon of the 24th May some of the fishing craft of Whitby put to sea in comparatively moderate weather, but towards evening a violent gale sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea, and 4 of the cobles were seen labouring and...
Valiant
Hastings, Sussex. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing vessel Valiant had engine trouble and was having difficulty in making the beach at Hastings. At 1.6 the life-boat M.T.C...
The Admiralty Trawlers Pyrope and Tamarisk
AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 11 A.M. the life-boat crew were at the Town Hall, where a picture of the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk was being presented to them, when an an-raid alarm was sounded.
The crew made...
The American Ship Edward O'Brien
On the 13th February, the Life-boat John Ashlury put off to the assistance of the American ship Edward VBrien, of St. Thomas, U.S.A., which, while on a voyage from Mobile to Liver- pool, got on the Morpha Bychan Sand, Cardigan Bay, in a...
St. Peter Port Life-Boat Lands a Sick Woman
(see page 490). - View image in PDF
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St. Ives Life-Boat Off Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
St Ives Life-Boat Off Yarmouth Isle of Wight. - View image in PDF
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A Sailing Dinghy
MAN WAS MISSING Torbay, South Devon. At 3.8 p.m.
on ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized off Livermead Beach. A further message was received that two men had...
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 1.6 in the morning of the 20th of November, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a man had been badly injured on the Royal Sovereign Lightvessel. After further information had been obtained the motor life-boat Jane...
Tempo
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 4.2 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a longshore boat about a mile north of the coast- guard look-out was flashing a distress signal. There was a light...