THE BOAT SHOW at Earls Court in January went with a bang this year! First there was the bomb. Luckily no one was injured, and the way in which everyone walked quietly and calmly to the exits and cleared the building in a matter of minutes...
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AT the same time that the Aberdeen Motor Life-boat was on her way north from Cowes, up the East Coast, a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat was en- gaged on an equally noteworthy journey down the West Coast of Scotland. This was the Pulling and...
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Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...
MAY 26TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. It had been reported that an aeroplane had come down into the sea, but the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £9 1s..
JUNE 12TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had crashed into the sea in flames, but the survivors were picked up by another vessel. - Rewards, £27 16s. 3d.
SILVER MEDAL SERVICES AT BLACKPOOL AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES Nov. 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE; NEW BRIGHTON, AND HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE ; RHYL, FLINTSHIRE. At noon on November 24th the pilot boat Charles Livingstone,...
Amble, Northumberland.—At 3.5 in the morning of the 6th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run aground at the harbour entrance and needed help, and at 3.10 the life-boat J. W. Archer left her moorings. There was a...
The 8i-ton Minehead life-boat being lifted into the Campania (See page 278). - View image in PDF
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On the after- noon of the 19th November the coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat Millicent, with three men on board, had been out for twelve hours, and some anxiety was felt for her safety. A moderate north wind was blowing,...
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