Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...
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THE night was dark, the tempest roared, The waves ran mountains high: It seemed to every hand on board As if the sea and sky In one commingled mass was blent And welded by the gale, Save where the quiv'ring light'niag rent The...
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Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal and U. to Mr.
JAMES MACKAY for saving two boys by swimming at great risk to a boat, which, had been swamped while attempting to cross the Bar of Tongue, tine Margaret, of Rye, which was...
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.16 p.m. on 9th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht was in danger of being driven ashore in Seaford Bay.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.25 in a moderate to fresh...
Margate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the after- noon of the llth of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a smallboat with four men in it was in diffi- culties between one and a half and two miles west of Herne Bay pier.
At...
The women ofStaithes in their traditional bonnets manning the raffle stall during the harbour fete organised by Runswick and Staithes branch. Among the highlights were lifeboat displays and the weekend ended with a thanksgiving service. More... - View image in PDF
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FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Left to right: G. Cox, Robert Cox, I. R Davies, J. J. Davies, junior, W. H. Davies, J. J. Davies, senior (second coxswain), Henry Blogg (coxswain), J. W. Davies, H. T. Davies, F. Davies, R. C. Davies and H. W. Davies (motor... - View image in PDF
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At 3.15 p.m. on yth July, 1965, a member of the IRB crew was told that a motor skiff carrying two people was in difficulties half a mile north of St. Ives Pier Head. At 3.15 the IRB launched in a northerly breeze and came...