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Kirkwall - Scotland Division

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

Kirkwall, capital of Orkney and its Mainland island, lies upon a busy harbour in which there is a constant coming and going of fishing boats, ferries and other seagoing traffic.

Kirkwall station opened in 1972 following... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Marguerite T.

Date: Summer 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 359

St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.31 on the night of the 21st of August, 1951, the signal station made a report.

The yacht Marguerite T., of Lowestoft, had wirelessed that she had broken down and was in a dangerous position...

Dr. Joseph Soar M.B.E

Date: July 1971

Volume: 42

Issue: 436

The death is also announced of Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., who was honorary secretary at St.

David's, Pembrokeshire, from 1926 to 1963. In 1943 he received the bronze medal of the Institution for the part he played in the...

Category: Obituaries

Hausa

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 5.30 A.M. on the 14th February,- 1939, the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore on the end of Spurn Point. The coxswain immediately went to the beach, where he saw the steam trawler Hausa, of...

Vacuum Reflex

Date: Autumn 1973

Volume: 43

Issue: 446

Congratulations to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution on 150years of devoted and courageous service From the manufacturers of 'Lifemaster' Lifejackets and Protective Clothing VACUUM REFLEX LIMITED PRESTIGE HOUSE 50COOMBEROAD NEW...

Category: Advertisement

Skald II

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Dungeness, Kent - At 10 a.m. on 30th April, 1967, a yacht was reported ashore at St. Mary's Bay between the groynes and close to the sea wall. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate south west wind and a smooth sea. It...

Co-operative Funeralcare

Date: Winter 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 571

Funeral Pre-Payment Plan from Co-operative Funeralcare It's always a good idea to plan ahead and with a Funeral Pre-Payment Plan from Co-operative Funeralcare, you can do just that. There are three funeral packages to choose from or you...

Category: Advertisement

A Flying Boat

Date: 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1943

JULY 28TH. - GALWAY BAY. A flying boat was overdue, but was later sighted in Clew Bay. The life-boat went as far as Cleggan, but returned on learning that the flying boat had been located. - Rewards, £15..

Surfers saved

Date: Summer 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 588

Three surfers got caught in a rip current off Devon’s Barricane beach on 31 January.

One got out of trouble and made it to shore but his friends were washed away, managing to grab on to a buoy 200m from shore. Ilfracombe’s...

Category: Articles

Zuider Kruis

Date: June 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 384

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.55 on the night of the 17th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on Goat Island in Stornoway Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out...