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Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT AREA No.10 Boy on rocks FOUR MEMBERS of the 1LB crew were working at Tramore pier, Co. Waterford, close by the boathouse at 7 p.m. on June 28, 1973, when a youth came up, greatly agitated, to tell them that a boy had been trapped on...
Category: Services
June
Launches 23 Lives rescued 8 JUNE 4TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. At 6.30 in the evening a yacht was seen endeavouring to make Howth, and the keeper of the Baily Lighthouse was asked to keep a watch on her. About nine o’clock he telephoned that the...
Category: Services
Three Triumphant Waves from (I to R) Dawn Moore Her Husband Jon and Maggie
Three triumphant waves from (I to r) Dawn Moore, her husband Jon and Maggie Annat. They have just completed a remarkable 22 week circumnavigation of Britain by canoe. All three are instructors at Outward Bound Wales at Aberdovey and Dawn and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Open Fishing Coble
FISHING BOATS IN DANGER Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At about 1.80 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, with a southerly gale blowing, heavy seas and an ebbing tide, an open fishing coble and seven other fishing boats were seen outside...
An Aeroplane (13)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
An Aeroplane (5)
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
An Aeroplane (129)
AUGUST 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A British bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but another boat had saved four of the crew from a rubber dinghy, and the fifth man could not be found.- Rewards, £12 16s. 6d..
An Ex-Coxswain's Gallantry
COXSWAIN THACKSTON CRAFTS, a boat- man of Southsea, was coxswain of the Southsea life-boat from 1893, seven vears after the station was opened, until it was closed in 1918, when he retired, being awarded a coxswain's certificate of...
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An Aeroplane (92)
JUNE 14TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An enemy aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £9 19s..
An Aeroplane (192)
DECEMBER 29TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down, but only patches of oil were found. - Rewards, £44 19s..