This Spring saw the official reopening of the RNLI Grace Darling museum in Northumberland, after years of redevelopment. Was it worth the wait? Carol Waterkeyn pays a visit to find out
In 1938, a museum opened in Bamburgh...
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MAY 6TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a trawler. - Rewards, £5 3s. 6d..
AUGUST 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but only patches of oil were found.
- Rewards, £7 17s. 6d..
DECEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON , NORFOLK. A n Admiralty trawler had been in collision, but she could not be found and she got in without help. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d.
MAY 11TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off South Shore, Blackpool, but later it was found that she had made a landing on the Southport side of the...
JULY 28TH. - PORTIIDINLLAEN CAERNARVONSHIRE. A Hurricane aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £4 14s.
JUNE 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A British fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a barge.
In addition to the two life-boats the motor boarding boat from...
JULY 20TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea fifteen miles south of Bognor, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £15 10s. 6d.
MAY 20TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A bomber aeroplane had been seen to fall into the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £7 8s. 6d.
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
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