SEPT. 9TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT. At 9.29 P.M .
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...
THE two silver and six bronze medals, with diplomas, which were awarded to Coxswain William Mogridge, of Torbay, and his crew by the French Government for the rescue of the skipper of the trawler Satanicle, on 30th December, 1935, were...
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1963 Kt 311,782 562 67,171 18,851 250 56,924 21,060 5,016 3,932 86,932 3,831 83,101 481,717 11,058 1,189 24,448 2,439 3.83I 42,965 39,602 33,883 73,485 75,918 2,409 12,716 61,666 3,522 1,546 81,859 46,827 8,632 409 55,868 811,812...
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Kirkcudbright.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of December, 1956, a local resident informed the life-boat station that the tanker B.P.
Marketer was in trouble in very bad weather in Dhoon Bay. At 9.52 the...
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Brave little Mablethorpe, Fair little Mablethorpe, Haven of rest for the young and the old; Where, in the summertime, Silver seas lazily Bipple o'er sands of a glittering gold.II.
England is proud...
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THESE reports contain matter of very considerable general interest, showing, as they do, what has been and is being done to perfect the system of weather forecasts in this our ever-changing climate, as well as to compile a register of the...
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PROPELLER FOULED BY NETS Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 7 o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1947, flares were seen in South Bay, and the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched at 7.20. A strong southerly...
" Man the Life-boat!" Listen, brother, How the signal cleaves the air, Chilling heart of wife or mother With a feeling nigh despair; "Man the Life-boat 1" and the thunder Seems to echo back the cry; "Dare they...
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AT INTERVALS around our coasts stand solid, stone buildings with arched doorways facing the sea, many now with moss on their tiled roofs, weeds in the gutters and rust on the runners for the massive wooden doors. They are old lifeboathouses,...
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