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'ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING’

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RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—About noon on the 14th October the schooner Eulala, of Dumfries, was seen to exhibit signals of distress while riding heavily in the bay. She had parted one anchor, and was drifting rapidly towards the rocks.The...

— On the morning of the 8th January the cox- swain telephoned to the honorary secretary that the local motor fishing boat Streamlight had left harbour early in the morning in company with other fishing boats, but had not returned with...

Portrush, Co. Antrim.—Shortly after noon on the 4th February a fisherman reported that one of the fishing fleet— the motor boat Alert, of Portstewart— had not returned to harbour, and that as the wind and sea were rising rapidly, anxiety was...

MR. EDMUND WARDE, of The Red House, Lyminge, Folkestone, Kent, has compiled a pocket anthology of nearly 150 sayings about courage, from Job's "I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer," to Rudyard Kipling's...

LAUNCH BROKEN DOWN IN A HEAVY SEA Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 4.0 in the afternoon of January 15th, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel, believed to be an ex-naval motor launch, was drifting five miles south of the coastguard...

EXHAUSTED ROWERS Wicklow.—At 6.35 in the evening of the 10th of August, 1947, a telephone message was received from the light- keeper at Wicklow Head that two rowing boats were in difficulties south of Wicklow Head in a very strong ebb...