Remaining silent for an hour, a jumble sale, a raffle for a giant rabbit, 'Harvey', and a sponsored walk to Corfe Castle and back, were all ways that the children of St Mary's Church Sunday School, Swanage, raised money for their... - View image in PDF
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APRIL 1ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A British bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but another boat picked up two survivors and a dead body. - Rewards, £8 16s. 6d.
(See Peterhead, “...
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
JUNE 20TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, S.E. of Beadnell, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £15 3s. 6d..
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Arran (Lamlash) Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Barrow, Lancashire Baumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Blyth,...
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JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
FEBRUARY 22ND. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A British Wellington aeroplane had come down in the Wash, but nothing was found in the course of a nine hours’ search. - Rewards, £29 11s. 6d..
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 a.m. on ist October, 1966, the captain of the motor vessel Ems Ore, of Monrovia, asked for police and medical help. At 9.45 the life-boat Solomon Browne launched in a fresh north westerly breeze and slight sea. The...
SAILING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.41 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing coble Egret, which was on a pleasure trip from Amble to Blyth, was making...
When the war in Europe ended sixteen months ago, six life-boats were in the yard waiting to be finished. Four of them have since gone to the coast.
Of the 29 life-boats which the Institution had planned to build as soon as...
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