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Norfolk maritime heroes and legends

Date: Autumn 2009

Volume: 61

Issue: 589

Norfolk maritime heroes and legends
by Mark Nicholls
Review by Carol Waterkeyn

Mark Nicholls is an awardwinning journalist with the Eastern Daily Press and a critically acclaimed defence correspondent...

Category: Articles

Vaaren

Date: November 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 186

CRESSWELL.—While a fresh wind was blowing from S.E., accompanied by foggy weather and a heavy sea, on the 13th March, the brig Vaaren, of and from Tvedestrand for Newcastle-on-Tyne, laden with pit-props, stranded at Quarry...

None

Date: March 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 337

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about 6.15 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, a doctor, a member of the local life-boat committee, asked for the life-boat to be launched to take to Penzance a young man who was suffering from acute...

Dawn

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

NEAR PORT ISAAC Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.55 p.m.

on i6th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that three Port Isaac fishing boats were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. The honorary secretary...

An American's Gift to English Life-Boat Men

Date: August 1899

Volume: 17

Issue: 193

Mr. P. B. PEMBEBTON, of New York, who was saved from the wreck of the Mohegan, recently Beat a present of 501. to the crew of the Porthonstock Life-boat, St. Keverne, Cornwall. la thanking him, the crew forwarded their photographs and a...

Category: Correspondence

Helmsman Ian Mcdowell - Bronze Medal

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

Helmsman Ian McDowell - Bronze Medal St Bees lifeboat, 31 July 1993 Ian McDowell was in charge of St Bees' C class «g» inshore lifeboat when she saved the crew of two from a grounded fishing vessel.

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Category: Photographs

Glad Tidings

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

JANUARY 4TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.

At 5.48 in the evening the coastguard reported a boat burning flares close to rock on the north side of Wick Bay, and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at six o’clock,...

Tijl Uilenspiegel (4)

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...

None (2)

Date: Spring 1996

Volume: 54

Issue: 536

With Summer around the corner, it may prove difficult to remember the frozen winter months, and as usual, the hardest hit by snow were Scotland and the North.

Sea transport showed its advantages in these conditions as RNLI...

Elmonticillo

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—3rd April.

The Spanish steamer Elmonticillo reported she was in difficulties, but she cleared the islands and went on her way.—Rewards, £5 15s..