Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...
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ifeboat Will you win in Winter? Tickets for the Winter 2006 Lifeboat Lottery are available from 16 October-15 December 2006, with the draw taking place on 5 January 2007. If you don't already receive tickets regularly, please call 0845...
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1951 s. d.
185,434 4 6 399 7 10 39,000 9 11 9,599 10 7 97 9 4 30,205 8 3 13.142 13 - 1,080 1 7 2,682 19 5 281348 4 5 016 18 6 010 11 11 2.024 7 6 1,321 17 3 92 17 2 4,006 12 4...
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February, 1980 Aldeburgh, Suffolk January 25 Amble, Northumberland January 25 Anstruther, Fife January 31 Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 17, 18, 28, 29 and January 25 Barrow, Cumbria January 13 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan February 17...
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THURSDAY, 5th October, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
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On a chilly December evening a team from Littlehampton fundraising branch set out on their annual pub rush and collected cash in aid of the RNLI.
Wearing yellow oilskins and carrying collection boxes and buckets, they aimed... - View image in PDF
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ATHERFIELD, BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, AND BROOKE, ISLE or WIGHT.—On the night of Sunday 31st January, the fourmasted s.s. Eider, of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on the reef of rocks...
FOR MORE THAN FOUR HUNDRED YEARS the Corporation of Trinity House, with its headquarters on Tower Hill, London, has been concerned with the safety of shipping, the progress of navigation and the welfare of seamen. Despite its venerable age,...
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A long, hard pull: Tug-of-war between Redcar (seen below), Teesmouth and Runswick Bay lifeboat crews resulted in a win for Runswick Bay and helped raise £637 on Redcar''s lifeboat day.
Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 3.27 in the morning of the 1st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Afon Gwili, of Llanelly, had anchored about a mile to the south-east of Yarmouth, and had asked...