FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL. A fishing boat was overdue, but at the first search the life-boat could find nothing, and when she put out again she found the boat bottom up on the shore.
The only man on board her...
(continued from page 166) breeding ground of many severe squalls and walls of white squalls were whistling across the firth, bringing'snow and stinging spray in their path.
Outside the firth, in the open sea, the south...
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Padstow, and St. Ires, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the evening of the 25th of Sept- ember, 1949, the Trevose Head coast- guard telephoned the Padstow life-boat authorities that a rowing boat with a crew of four was trying to get ashore in...
(From Country Life.) THERE was a sound of men's voices singing, calls and cries, laughter and the ringing of a bell; everyone went to the windows. Through the new green leaves one could see in the road a little group of men and girls...
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The Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 9.40 a.m. on 6th June, 1967, a report was received that the motor fishing vessel Universal Dipper was aground half a mile west of Sker Point. As the vessel was high and dry it was decided to delay the...
Between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of 19th March the steamer Fleswick, of Liverpool, made signals of distress, having become disabled through her circulating pipe breaking. The Cadg- with Life-boat and...
Past explained: the old lifeboathouse at Brook on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, where a pulling lifeboat was kept betweeen 1860 and 1937, has for a long time had no indication of what the building was originally used for. Tourists... - View image in PDF
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 6.35 p.m.
on pth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's life-boat was three hours overdue with eight people on board, including three young children....
BBC"Onedin Line' stars Peter Gilmore, Anne Stally brass and Howard Lang, on location at Milford Haven, attended a reception at Pembrokeshire Yacht Club in April at which club members who are also members of Hakin Point branch ran a... - View image in PDF
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The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands....