LANDING INJURED MEN Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.30 in the morning of Christmas Day, 1947, the Hartland Point coastguard reported a wireless message from the S.S. Holder- nore, of Hull, that she wanted to land injured men. With a doctor on board...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 10.5 on the night of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board was drifting off Pen Anglas. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched at 10...
Reserve life-boat.—At 9.30 on the 10th of November, 1953, the reserve life- boat Thomas Markby put out from a shipbuilders' yard at Littlehampton in a swell and light south-south-east breeze. She was to undergo machin-ery trials...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At 10.25 on the nightof the 31st of Decem- ber, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a doctor had reported that a woman on Bardsey Island was serious- ly ill. The doctor asked if the life- boat would take...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4.5 on the after- noon of the 23rd of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a rowing boat, fitted with an outboard motor, three miles south-east of Ramsgate, appeared to be in difficulties. At 4.14 the life-boat...
Hunter trials in the garden of Mrs Duncan, president of Troon ladies' guild. - View image in PDF
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The Queen Mother leaving St Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor of London. - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 4TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Two vessels had come into collision while in convoy, but they were able to go on their way. - Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
Hythe, Dover, and Folkestone, Kent.— On the night of the 13th-14th December the Hythe and Dover motor life-boats and a Folkestone fishing boat went out to the rescue of the crew of three of the motor fishing boat Josephine II, of...
OCT. 4TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
Distress signals had been reported but nothing could be found. The life-boat was out for fifteen hours.-Rewards, £21 16s..