(Left) Burton-on-Trent branch raised £177 at its 1977 wine and cheese party, the fourth to be held at the home of Mr and Mrs F. R. Kerry. Behind the 'groaning board', the Kerry family (I.) with Mr and Mrs E. A Cooper, joint... - View image in PDF
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(5)—Going to work.—Frank Bloom and Les Wall rowing out to their oyster boat.. - View image in PDF
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Aberdovey, Gwynedd April 14, May 4 and 5 Abersoch, Gwynedd April 9 and May 28 Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 10, 12, May 4 and 16 Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire April 26 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan March 3, May 18 and 26 Bangor, Co Down May 3...
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UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
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OCTOBER 11TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 1.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported three tugs, with floating cranes in tow, dragging their anchors in St. Ives Bay, and drifting towards the Stones Reef, off Godrevy Point....
SWANSEA.—At 8 o'clock on the night of the 29th April, three oyster skiffs— the Gertrude, Gladstone, and Shah—were observed from the shore to be in distress off the Mumbles Head. The force of the gale had carried away their spars and...
At 5 P.M. on the 12th March, when blowing a strong gale from the N., the schooner Resolute, of Peterhead, and brig A. E. M., of Nantes, went ashore on the north-west part of the Goodwin Sands.
The steam-tug Vulcan and Life...
Fishing boat sinking ROSSLARE HARBOUR OFFICE informed Storeman R. Walshe at 1130 on Thursday December 7, 1978, that a Swedish cargo vessel had relayed a distress signal from a fishing boat sinking off Tuskar Rock. Maroons were fired at 1135,...
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At about 7 P.M.
on the 21st June, 1938, the coastguard reported that two fishing boats were in difficulties one mile east of Mullartown Point. They were the motor fishing boats Lizzie and William Cecil,...
The 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat William Gammon, Manchester and District XXX, on temporary duty at Cromer, launches on service to Diana V. - View image in PDF
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