PANAMANIAN VESSEL ESCORTED IN GALE Wick, Caithness-shire. Wick harbour authority advised the honorary secretary at three o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, that the 628-ton Panamanian cargo vessel Eastport,...
Scarborough, and Filey, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 17th of January, 1949, the Scarborough coast- guard reported to the life-boat station that anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing coble Hilda which had left...
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a trawler with an injured man on board was making for the Humber and that the services of a doctor were needed...
Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 25th of November, 1948, a trawler appeared to be ashore oft Bonahaven Distillery and was seen to be showing a light. The motor life- boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 9.3 in a strong...
YEAR after year the Board of Trade draws public attention to the shipping catas- trophes occurring on our rock-bound shores, as though to remind us that a large proportion of the luxuries and comforts we daily enjoy are obtained at the cost...
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Norman Edmond, QBE, served on the committee of Aberdeen branch for over 30 years and was chairman of the committee from 1973 to 1974..
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THE Grosvenor Sports Club, which was founded in October, 1962, when members of the head office staff of the Institution met to discuss sports and.
social activities, is going from strength to...
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Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a request from the Trinity House Superintendent at Swansea for the services of the life-boat to land a very sick member of the...