damage. He also felt it would be too dangerous to try to close alongside.
Instead, he instructed his crew to prepare a tow and moved the lifeboat, stern-first, towards the casualty's port bow. The occupants could be...
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As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...
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ARANMOBE, co. DONEGAL—Information reached Aranmore about 9 P.M. on the 2nd August that two fishing boats belonging to the place were in difficulties, and as there was a S.E. gale blowing, with a rough sea, the Life-boat La Totitam was...
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October 14th. Soon after noon a gale sprang ijp suddenly i from the eastward. A lar^e' number of! Scarborough fishing vessels, which were outside, had to bear up .and run for the harbour at Scarborough. Vessels which ; fall to...
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy seemed to be in diffi- culties about a mile off the Tyne entrance. The sea was rough and a • moderate westerly...
SHAFT WAS BROKEN Whitby, Yorkshire. At 8.35 p.m. on 25th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was flashing a light about one mile north-west of the harbour entrance.
The sea...
The centuries-old Dunstable market recently moved to a new site and the official opening coincided with the local branch flag day.. - View image in PDF
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Launches 33 Lives rescued 14
OCTOBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 8.50 at night a message was received from the Southern Railway Company that a small yacht had fired distress signals off the east pier. A...
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