MARCH 7TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the South Knoll Light-vessel had reported a ship on fire two miles N.E.
of the...
Car over cliff LATE ON THE EVENING OF THURSDAY JULY 24, 1986, the coastguard cliff rescue team were called to Port Soderick Bay, 2'/2 miles south of Douglas on the Isle of Man. A car with four people inside had driven over a 330 ft cliff...
Appledore's Atlantic 21 On Exercise. - View image in PDF
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August 1996 Mr Donie O'Sullivan, former Ballycotton station honorary secretary from 1967 until 1992. Mr O'Sullivan was previously assistant honorary secretary from 1964 and was awarded the Institution's binoculars in 1983 and the...
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SEPTEMBER 5TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the naval u t h o r i t i e s s h o r t l y a f t e r l a u n c h i n g . - Rewards, £7 18s..
OCTOBER 10TH. - SHERINGHAM, NOR FOLK. A bomber had been reported down in the sea twenty miles off Wells, but notrace of her was found either by the life-boat or by other vessels and aeroplanes which took part in the search. - Rewards,...
During squally weather, on the 28th March, 1872, the barque Exe, of Exeter, went on the New- come Sand in a very dangerous position.
The Kessingland No. 1 Life-boat, the Bolton, was promptly launched to her as- sistance ;...
ON the 14th of August, 1958, a disastrous accident occurred when a K.L.M.
Constellation aircraft crashed in the Atlantic more than 80 miles from the west-coast of Ireland. Ninety-nine people lost their lives. Life-boats...
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