On the 24th January, during a tremendous hurricane from the S., accompanied by thick showers of snow, the schooner Mis- chief, of Caernarvon, struck on the Parten Stiel Rocks, about a mile and a half to the south of Holy Island. Signals of...
At 4 P.M. on the 26th Sep- tember, the Life-boat Albert Edward, sta- tioned at Padstow, rescued the crew of the brigantine Immacolata,, of Naples. This vessel had brought up in a very dangerous position, outside Padstow Bar, on which a heavy...
On the 24th of September, at 11 P.M., the brig Hartley, of Southampton, went on shore on the south end of the Goodwin sands, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W. at the time. At 1-40 A. si. alarm guns and rockets were observed on...
SIR Charles Baring, Bt, Colonel F. F.
B. St. George, C.V.O., and Mr. Norman E. Wales have joined the Committee of Management of the Institution.
Sir Charles Baring is the son of Sir Godfrey Baring who...
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Portaskaig, Islay.—During the morning of the llth March the mail steamer Pioneer, of Glasgow, left Portaskaig for West Loch Tarbert. She had mail and twenty-two persons on board. When she was about eight miles east of Macarthur's Head...
AUGUST 23RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.10 P .M. a message was received from the coastguard that gun-fire and an explosion, followed by tracer bullets, had been observed 9 miles S.E. of Wick.
A further...
DECEMBER 13TH. - WALMER, KENT.
About 8.40 in the morning a message was received that a steamer was aground off Walmer Castle. A light north-north-west breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a thick fog....
A summer wine and quiche party organised by Northampton ladies' guild and held at Castle Ashby, the home of the Marquess of Northampton, raised £1,133 for Aldeburgh lifeboat appeal. Conducted tours were taken round this delightful... - View image in PDF
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St. Ives, Cornwall.—At midnight on the lst-2nd November the coastguard reported a vessel ashore west of St.
Ives. She was the American steamer Bessemer City, of New York, bound from Liverpool for London with a general cargo...