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Two Aeroplanes

Date: October 1947

Volume: 32

Issue: 343

AEROPLANES IN COLLISION Padstow, Cornwall.—At 12.55 in the afternoon of the llth of June, 1947, the St. Merryn Royal Naval Air Station reported that two aeroplanes had collided in mid-air off Holywell Bay and asked the life-boat to help...

Mrs Jean Rose,

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

Mrs Jean Rose, president of Heworth ladies' guild since 1992 having previously served as founder chairman since 1968. Until 1945 she had been a member of the Port Rush committee in Ireland and after moving to England inthat year she...

Category: Obituaries

H.M.S. Plover

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

Newcastle, Co. Down. H.M.S. Plover, visiting Newcastle, was due to sail early on the fth August, 1965, for the Clyde.

However, her commanding officer and forty ratings were stranded ashore as the liberty boat had grounded...

None (2)

Date: September 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 393

Swanage, Dorset. At 8.55 on the evening of the 15th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of boys were stranded on the cliff face at Ballard Head. A shore rescue party was trying to reach them, and the...

Amelia Lauro (1)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

MARCH 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH A N D G O R L E S T O N , N O R F O L K . A t 10.56 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Italian steamer Amelia Lauro, of Naples, anchored in the roadstead off Britannia Pier, was making...

Mervic (2)

Date: January 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 430

Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...

A Rowing Boat

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

FOUR EXHAUSTED OARSMEN RESCUED Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 8.40 p.m.

on Saturday the 20th of July, 1963, the Port Erin police constable told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in Calf Sound and that he was...

Jane Cookson,

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

April 1996 Jane Cookson, treasurer of Morpeth guild. Jane joined the committee in 1974 and became treasurer in 1976, a position she held until her death. Jane was awarded the Silver badge in 1991..

Category: Obituaries

Lifeboat Services (Continued from Page 153)

Date: Spring 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 456

Lifeboat Services (continued from page 153) (and their dog) were in turn taken by breeches buoy to the lifeboat. John Powell and Alwyn Emmerson were then recovered in the same way.

The operation was completed by 1720 and...

Category: Services

Andromeda

Date: August 1911

Volume: 21

Issue: 241

The schooner Andromeda, of Riga, bound from London to Bo'ness, with a cargo of scrap iron, stranded in the vicinity of Thorntonloch, on the 6th January. The Life-boat, Sarah Kay and the rocket apparatus were quickly on the scene of the...