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An Aeroplane (10)
FEBRUARY 6TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but boats which went out to search were later recalled by order of the commander- in-chief at Portsmouth. - Rewards, £13 13s. 9d..
An Aeroplane (39)
OCTOBER 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but half an hour after the life-boat put out she was recalled by wireless by the naval officer in charge at Ramsgate. - Rewards, £15..
An R.A.F. Rescue Launch and a Dinghy From a Wellington Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
Soon after six in the morning the coastguard reported that a dinghy from a Wellington aeroplane had been seen nearly nine miles from Skegness pier. A strong south-easterly wind of...
D.S.O.
Captain R. L. Harriet, R.N., the depu:y chief inspector of life-boats, who was called up to the Navy at the outbreak of war, has won the D.S.O., "for courage and resource in successful attacks on enemy submarines".
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New lifeboat station to be trialled
A new crew of RNLI volunteers are preparing to open a lifeboat station in south west Cork. An inshore lifeboat station should be up and running at Union Hall, Keelbeg, from mid 2014 for a 2-year trial period. The volunteers will operate an...
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Folda
NOVEMBER 19TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 10.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel near the N.E. Swin Lightship had been attacked by German aeroplanes.
A light S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
Two Liberator Aeroplanes
APRIL 27TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A Liberator aeroplane had crashed at Westgate, but was found to be high and dry. Another had struck the cliff and blown up and two men had baled out, but they were saved by another boat. - Rewards, £8...
R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124
JANUARY 23RD. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 8.15 P.M. flag officer in charge Great Yarmouth asked, through the coastguard, for the services of the life-boat for R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124, which was aground on Scroby Sands...
Cresta
Exmouth, Devon.—At 8.29 in the evening of the 8th of October, 1948, the coastguard reported a message from the Budleigh Salterton police that a yacht was about a hundred yards off Budleigh Salterton beach in a heavy swell, and the motor life...
Duke Senior
Anglers landed THE FISHING VESSEL Duke Senior appeared to be in difficulties near the entrance to Whitstable harbour just after midday on Sunday January 19, 1986. There were a number of people on board, thought to be anglers, and the boat...