1960 £ 197,541 334 42,558 17,618 65 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS:— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Aith, Appledore, Boulmer, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Howth, Lizard-Cadgwith, Longhope, Penlee, ...
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Fourteen Launches in One Day.
Two Services by the Ramsey, Isle of Man, Life-boat.
ON January 26fch last there were severe gales all round the coast, and fourteen Life-boat launches took place at Montrose,...
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...
Tanker aground A MESSAGE came to the Angle (Pembrokeshire) honorary secretary from St Anne's Head Coastguard at 9.8 p.m.
on August 5, 1973, to say that the oil tanker Dona Marika had run aground on Wooltack Point,...
Arranmore’s lifeboat really did face ‘all weathers’, like this Severn class, and the inflatable Y boat stored on top proved invaluable once the storm began to ease. - View image in PDF
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On June 22 the North West District of the Boys' Brigade presented to Blackpool crew a cheque for £500 to go towards Blackpool inshore lifeboat house.
Frederick Burton, honorary secretary of the station, is at right... - View image in PDF
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Swept round broadside on, twice, by the heavy seas . ... - View image in PDF
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Eyemouth's 74m Trent class lifeboat in calmer seas.. - View image in PDF
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On 14th January a man from Dinmor Quarry saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive either on to Puffin Island or into the sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, who notified the Life-boat Station.
This was at 3.30 P.M. The...
The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...
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