A winter sponsored raft race on the River Dee organised by the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club raised £380 for Aberdeen's new Arun lifeboat BP Forties. The 27 starters were sent on their way by Coxswain Albert Bird, who... - View image in PDF
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The schooner Sally Green, of Liverpool, stranded near this life-boat station during a fresh gale from E.S.E. on the 30th April. She would probably have previously sunk and become a total wreck, had not the Sophia life-boat gone off to her,...
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the afternoon of the 1st January, when a strong gale from the N.E. and a fresh in the river had set up an unusually heavy sea on the bar of the Tweed, the barque Result, of Guernsey, which was bound from Sombrero to...
Morecambe Hovercraft Commander Harry Roberts (right) and the crew of The Hurley Flyer. - View image in PDF
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On the 26th October, at 9.30 A.M., the Life-boat William Tomlinson was launched to the assistance of the schooner Elizabeth, of Carlisle, which had driven ashore near Seascale, a heavy sea breaking on the beach and it blowing hard at S.S.W....
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IN 1947 the Lord Mayor of Sydney started what came to be known as the Australian Express Parcel Scheme for sending food parcels to Great Britain.
Two years later, on November 29th, 1949, the two-millionth parcel was...
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Mr John Skellorn, of the Gravesend Sailing Club, gives a tip about raising money by paperboat racing.
He writes: 'As far as we know, only Belfleet yacht club and ourselves have organised paperboat racing. It started...
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On the 4th of the following month (December), the brig Schiedam, of Middles- borough, bound from Seaham to South- ampton with coals, foundered at sea off the Yorkshire coast soon after midnight.
The master and crew of 5...
Early on the morning of the 30th May, the smack Agnes and Mary, of Glasgow, struck on the rocks off this place, during a strong northerly wind and heavy surf. The Groomsport life-boat put off, and brought the master of the smack safely...