Early on the morn- ing of the 19th October the coastguard telephoned that a barge, bearing one mile N.E. by N. from Deal coastguard station, was burning flares. A mode- rate W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and squalls of rain. The...
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was flying distress signals south- east of Bass Rock. Five minutes later the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan...
For the past 16 years the Tal-y-Llyn Railway Company, one of the famous Great Little Railways of Wales, has allowed the Tywyn branch to run a special summer evening train - which is pictured here at Abergynolwyn station last... - View image in PDF
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CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen high and dry on the Ganfleet Sand, just above the lighthouses flying signals of distress. The Albert Edward...
At 6.15 A.M. on the 13th October the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station told the coxswain that Holmpton coastguard had reported a steam trawler ashore at Dimlington. She was the Kirby. of Grimsby, bound home from the fishing grounds, with a...
EIGHT members of the Dover life-boat crew, Coxswain T. Walker, Second Coxswain W. Cockings, Mechanic II.
Pegg, Second Mechanic A. Liddon and Life-boatmen D. Briggs. S. Liddon, J.
Sharp and A. Whiting, were...
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FEBRUARY 22ND. - THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. At 11.18 A.M. information was received from the coastguard that the minesweeper Erimo had struck a mine about one and a half miles off the Mumbles, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.E....
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7£ feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra...
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On the after- noon of the 9th November seven men in a small boat from the steam trawler Pennard Castle, of Swansea, who had come ashore during the afternoon, tried to get back to the trawler. A strong north gale was blowing, with a heavy sea...
DOCTOR TAKEN TO OWNER OF YACHT Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.15 on the morning of the 9th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yachtsman on board the yacht Prelude had reported by radio-telephone that the owner of the yacht had...