Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 10.35 on the morning of the 3rd July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Swedish vessel was drifting ashore about two miles from Glas Island lighthouse and needed immediate help. A...
COASTGUARD, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH Flamborough, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs. A helicopter had landed on...
RESCUE OF A WOMAN AND DOG Port Erin, Isle of Man. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday the llth of September, 1963, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that a woman was stranded on the cliffs at Bradda Head. She...
FEBRUARY 15TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 10.50 A.M. information was received from the Chapel St. Leonard’s coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two miles east of the look-out. A light S.W. wind was blowing,...
AUGUST 28TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A British bombing aeroplane had come down in the sea about 11.30 in the morning, off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, twenty miles away on the other side of Caernarvon Bay, and at 12.36...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 4th of December, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that flares had been seen north of Arklow harbour. At 9.9 the life-boat Inbhear Mor was launched. The sea was choppy, with a...
THE accompanying tabular statement clearly shows the important character of the services rendered by the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
It will be seen that during the year (1862) which has just closed,...
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IN our last number we commented on the j first portion of this important Report, comprising the clauses on "Overloading and Load Line," "Deck Loads," "Grain j Cargoes," and "Survey of British Merchant Ships...
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Yacht knocked down AFTER FINISHING a cruiser race in gale force winds, the 25ft yacht Setantii set out from Port St Mary on the morning of Monday August 30, 1982, to return to her home port of Fleetwood; she had a crew of three. Gale force...
CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
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