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GIVE IT A GO: COASTAL FORAGING
All around us, ancient varieties of food are just waiting to be rediscovered. From leaves like samphire and sea spinach to seaweeds, blackberries, beech nuts and violets – you’ll be amazed at the abundance and...
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Trioner, of Arendul
On the 20th April the brig Trioner, of Arendal, was seen with a signal of distress flying during a fresh gale from the E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea. She evidently was trying to make Macduff harbour, but was in great...
Anne Gill
On the following morning the Life-boat went to the assistance of the stranded schooner, Anne Gill, of and for Goole, from London, laden with wheat. Her crew had launched their own boat, and two men had got into her, but she broke adrift and...
Samuel Dixon
WICKLOW.—The Bolert T. Garden Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. on the 1st November, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Samuel Dixon, of "Wexford, bound from Llanelly for Wexford with a cargo of coal, which had shown a...
Ocean Star
CAISTER.—The No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 7th June, during a thick fog, a freslj S. breeze and a heavy sea, to the assistance of the fishing dandy Ocean Star, of Great Yarmouth, which had stranded on the...
Clydesdale
At about 5 A.M. on the 5th March signals of dis- tress were made by a vessel on the West Scar Bocks, about 400 yards from the shore. The Life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched and proceeded to her. She proved to be the steamer Clydesdale,...
Mardy
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. —On the 20th August the motor barge Mardy, of King's Lynn, ran ashore on the outer shoal at the entrance to the River Aide.
She carried a crew of six, and was bound with a cargo of coal from Boston...
Floral Queen, Silver Line, Little Lady and Margaret
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.45 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1952, the life-boat head launcher reported that the seas were very heavy on the harbour bar, making the conditions bad for returning fishing cobles. Four cobles were at...
May Lily
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from Flamborough that the fishing boat May Lily, of Scarborough, with a crew of four, was in distress...
Skylark
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of January, 1950,the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Skylark, of Shoreham, working from Eastbourne, had not returned from early morning fishing.
As the...