APRIL 13TH. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
Red flares had been reported, but nothing could be found. Later it was learned that the flares were Holmes lights of the lifebuoys of the Belgian steamer Arbel, of Antwerp, which were...
10 April: Ilfracombe, Devon A teenage girl stranded on rocks and cut off by a rising sea was rescued by Ilfracombe lifeboat. The 13-year-old became stuck near Lee Bay while walking with friends. Ilfracombe’s...
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To Mr. THOMAS BRADLEY, in recognition of his 37 years' distinguished service as Honorary Secretary of the St. Annes-on-Sea Branch, a Silver Inkstand and the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum.
To Mr. ROBERT...
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Sprays of flowers from Walmer vice-chairman, Peter Broady (/.), and honorary secretary, Norman Cavell, for Schermuly and Pains- Wessex marchers (I. to r.) Barbara Skinner, Petra Mercer, Sue Roberts, Debbie Groom and Evelyn Luff.
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Many colleges have their own sports teams, but how many can claim to have their own lifeboat crew? At Atlantic College, a crew made up of teachers and students is on call, ready to swap the classrooms and quarters at St Donat's Castle...
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BIyth, Northumberland; Dunbar,'Haddingtonshire ; Buckie, Banffshire ; Lerwick, Shetland.—27th-31st January. The Russian steamer Irtysch, while bound from West Hartlepool to Leningrad had run into a severe gale and been driven north. She...
Falmouto, Cornwall.—At one o'clock in the morning of the 18th of June, 1948, a woman reported that her hus- band and another man had put out fishing in a motor launch the previous morning and had not returned. At 1.30 the motor life-boat...
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 11 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had fired an orange flare about three miles south by east from Pendennis.
The life-boat Crawford and...
At 2005 information was received that Scarborough lifeboat was launching to investigate red flares sighted by Flamborough Coastguard and at 2240 Filey lifeboat was requested by Tees Coastguard to launch to join Whitby and Scarborough...
South Western Division French trawler in tow A FRENCH TRAWLER, Keriolet, in tow of the cable ship Iris and in need of help was reported to the honorary secretary of Clovelly, North Devon, by the Coastguard at 1610 on Thursday, January 17....