AUGUST 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.45 P.M. the resident naval officer asked that the life-boat crew should stand by, and at 11.20 P.M. the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched to take out an officer, who was...
Another £600 has been received from South Africa in response to Miss Pattie Price's appeal. £5°o of it comes from the Navy League War Fund of South Africa and £164 from people of Johannesburg. The total is now £2...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.27 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Marsworth, of London, had wirelessed that she was sinking.
She had...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 7.25 on the morning of the 4th of November, 1957, Humber radio reported that the Polish trawler Jas- kolka was in trouble 18 miles north- east of Smith's Knoll. Her engine room was flooded and...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 21st January, 1939, the Belgian trawler Paul Therese, of Ostend, broke from her moorings in Newlyn Harbour and drifted out to sea. Her crew of six were asleep and unconscious of their danger. A...
Torbay, Devon.—1st August, 1938.
Lights had been seen at sea, but a search revealed nothing.—Rewards, £9 13s..
Plymouth, Devon. — 2nd August.
Two men on rafts were being blown out to sea, but a change of wind brought them ashore at Bigbury.—Rewards, £5 145..
JAN. 22ND. - ABERDEEN. A small boat had been reported capsized at the mouth of the River Don, but nothing could be found.- Rewards, £6 17s. 6d..
HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At about 3 in the afternoon of the 19th of September, 1943, the 18-ton motor fishing boat Alexandra, with a crew of five, was fishing some 10 miles east-north-east of Heugh Light in Hartlepool Bay, when the men saw an...
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