Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—9th July, 1939. An aeroplane had come down in the sea off Milford-on-Sea but no trace of her could be found. She is believed to have sunk with her pilot.—Rewards, £3 18s..
OFF the mouth of the River Yare, which divides the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and has given its name to the ancient seaport town of Yarmouth, stretch a series of sandbanks, such as the Scroby, the Cross Sand, and the Cockle, to name...
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JANUARY 22ND. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. An aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but was found by a small fishing boat. She had sunk in ten feet of water and the pilot was drowned.- Rewards, £6 12s.
IN October of last year a supplement to The Life-boat was published, written by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution. The supplement, under the title of " Liter- ature of the Life-boat," gave an...
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JULY 1ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea, but the Buckie life-boat reached the position to find that an R.A.F. rescue launch had picked up the body of an...
The high superstructure of an Arun class lifeboat may make her look 'top heavy' to some eyes, but is the key to her ultimate stability and safety.. - View image in PDF
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IntO tHe Cauldron Few people would risk swimming 30m through churning seas, surrounded by rocks – but that’s exactly what an RNLI lifeguard did in her bid to save a life South of Cornwall’s popular Perranporth beach, a gully lies in amongst...
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Campbehown, Argyllshire. — Shortly before eleven in the morning of the 19th of July, 1949, the Southend coastguard telephoned information from a farmer that a small yacht had run aground on the Arranman's Barrells Reef, Sound of Sanda,...
Eastbourne, Sussex.—About 11.20 in the morning of the llth of September, '1949, the police reported that a canoe had capsized oil Falling Sands. The occupants, a man and his two small children, had been trying to round Beachy Head. Ten...
Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...
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