On the 5th September the brig Governor Maclean, of London, was totally wrecked, during a gale of wind, on the Shold Point of the Ower's Sandbank, off Selsey. The life-boat on that station was immediately manned and launched, and took...
On the 15th August three young men from a camp went out sailing in the boat Kenya, of Colwell Bay. A strong south- west wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the boat was capsized. This information was sent by telephone from Cliff End...
The Porthdinllaen Life-Boat In The Seventies of Last Century. - View image in PDF
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Stars of a 'Going for a Song' evening arranged by Ashtead and Leatherhead branches last November were (I. to r.) Richard Baker as chairman with contestants Mollie Sugden and Bill Pertwee. Two experts, Brian Clarke and Alastair... - View image in PDF
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SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—On the 27th March, the smack Howard, of Grimsby, went ashore near the outer buoy, off Scarborough.
On the accident being seen from the shore, the Scarborough life-boat was immediately launched, and...
Category: Services
Aberdeen.—On the 9th of February, 1956, the agents for the S.S. Morma- coak, of New York, rang up to say that the vessel's cargo had broken adrift in bad weather and that her chief officer had been badly hurt. The vessel was making for...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the 22nd February the s.s. Brightside, of Middlesbrough, ran on to Shingle Bank, while bound from St. Kevern for London with a cargo of granite.
She was not in immediate danger, and preparations...
JANUARY 18TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A messenger came from the signal station at 1.22 in the morning with a message from the Trinity House superintendent at Great Yarmouth : Would the life-boat go to the Humber...
The skippers of Aberdeen trawlers who are rewarded by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for Scotland when they recover tagged fish give their rewards to the R.N.L.I. They direct the Department to send the money to the honorary...
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ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLANDS.—On the night of the 9th June, it was reported that a steamer was ashore on Crebawethan, one of the rocks to the westward of St.
Mary's; a dense fog prevailed at the...