FOR many years there have been Civil Service life-boats on the coasts of England, Scotland and Ireland, but up to the present there has been none on the coast of Wales. As it was the wish of the committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund...
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Dover, Kent. At 10.55 on the morning of the 27th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea near the Varne lightvessel and that the pilot had been picked up by the lightvessel's...
MAY 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aircraft had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £6 13s..
DEC. 7TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Gunfire had been heard and an aeroplane reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £8 9s..
NOVEMBER 7TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported in the sea off Frinton, but only oil patches could be found. - Rewards, £19 12s. 6d.
AUGUST 12TH. - NEWHAVEN, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Newhaven, £8 15s ; Hastings, £14 3s. 6d.
MARCH 25TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in the sea one mile off Sandsend and that her crew had taken to their rubber dinghy. All the fishing boats...
Five men in a boat Tomost people, the idea of rowing across the Irish Sea is incomprehensible, and it was with a degree of trepidation that five amateurs set out at 0330 on Saturday 27 May from Holyhead to tackle the feat and raise money for...
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Fig. 4: (Below right) Looking into fore end box. Foredeck laminated mahogany curved deck beams are in place.. - View image in PDF
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Thursday, 28th April, 1927.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of the Lord Brownlow, and also of Mr. Henry E. Fargus, Members of the Committee of...
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