At 3.40 p.m. on I5th June, 1967, news was received that a red flare had been fired from a yacht east north east of Dover harbour. The life-boat Southern Africa slipped her moorings at 3.59 in a gale force wind and a rough sea. It was two...
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
JUNE 4TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
An aeroplane had been reported to have fallen into the sea, but later news was received that she was safe.-Rewards, £4 10s..
Early publicity: this photograph of three committee members provided some excellent advance publicity for Banbury's 1986 flag week. Alan Pennington, Banbury branch publicity secretary, seen here sandwiched between chairman David Gittins... - View image in PDF
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Penlee, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 19th of July, 1959, the life-boat W and S was launched at the request of the port medical officer to take him to the s.s. Lindi of Antwerp, as one of her crew was very ill. There...
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... the photographs are of Lynmouth, North Devon.
I think they must have been taken about 1925-26. Asa youngster I went with my parents for a week every... - View image in PDF
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On instruction from the coxswain and second coxswain, the crew of Southsea lifeboat launch by pulling on the haul-off warp. This was a rope which was attached to an anchor offshore, allowing the lifeboat to be hauled out through the surf... - View image in PDF
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By the REV. THOMAS GUTHRIE, D.D.
THE gale of the 3rd of December last was a destructive hurricane. It would appear, from observations made at Liverpool, that its utmost severity fell on that town and its neighbourhood ;...
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The new deputy-secretary is Lieut.-Col. C. Stewart Watson, of the Royal Marines. He was educated at Cheltenham College and has specialised in naval gunnery. First as head ot the School of Naval Gunnery at Portsmouth, and then as...
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FEBRUARY 3RD. - BRIDLINGTON, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About noon a message was received at Bridlington from the coastguard that the S.S. KildaleKildale was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes ten to twenty miles N.E. of Spurn, and that her...