Selsey, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 25th of March, 1954. the coast- guard telephoned that a red flare had been reported off Selsey. At 9.55 another red flare was seen, and at 10.15 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a...
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 6th of October, 1950, the Irish Lights Com- missioners asked that the life-boat should go to the Coningbeg Lightvessel to land a man whose wife was danger- ously ill. At 9.50...
On the night of the 31st March, during a gale of wind from the N.W., the Princess of Wales life-boat went off in reply to a signal from the Austrian schooner Nicolo, which had stranded near Penial, Anglesea, to the assistance of some boatmen...
Sheringham, Norfolk. — 23rd April, 1938. The engine of the motor barge Lies, of Rotterdam, had broken down, but a steamer took the barge in tow.— Rewards, £16 3s. 6d..
Poole lifeboat, the 44' Waveney Augustine Courtauld, on Saturday, October 1, went to the help of a catamaran Sparkle, in difficulty with engine failure one mile east of Hengistbury Head. The wind was west north west, near gale force 7,... - View image in PDF
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(Above) They were queuing up to give to the RNLI in llford on London lifeboat day, when a total of £180,590 was raised in Greater London and the City.. - View image in PDF
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APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A British bomber was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing was found, and while the life-boat was searching the news came that the bomber had crashed 45 miles away. - Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..<...
Dragging in storm A YACHT DRAGGING her anchor in North Mouth, Out Skerries, 20 miles north east of Lerwick lifeboat station, in Shetland, was reported to the deputy launching authority by Lerwick Coastguard at 0051 on Tuesday September21,...
Alors! Visitors to the Three Horseshoes at Turves, near Whittlesey, might have been forgiven for imagining they were in France rather than in the Fens of England. The landlord of the pub, exiled Frenchman Christian Kolich, and his wife Terri...
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