Aith, Shetlands - At 9.10 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Foula mailboat had been reported overdue. She was last seen six miles east-south-east of Foula, apparently drifting. The life-boat John...
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THE life-boat station at Walton-on-the- Naze and Frinton, Essex, celebrated its jubilee with a dinner on 17th November. Fifty years before, almost to a day, on 18th November, 1884, the inaugural ceremony was held of the first* Walton...
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SOME day I hope to be able to give a | full account of all the doings of the' members of the Staff who have been, and are, serving in arms in the struggle in which we are engaged. It will prove interesting reading, for men who had been...
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PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy...
A trial of the life-boat designed by Mr. PEAKE, one of the Northumberland Life- Boat Committee, and built under his superin- tendence, by order of the Lords Commis- sioners of the Admiralty, in Her Majesty's Dockyard at Woolwich, for the...
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Thurso, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkney. •—• 1st June. A steamer stranded on Stroma Island, but her crew were landed by a small boat.— Rewards, Thurso, £5 3s. 6d.; Longhope, £4 19s. 6d..
MAY 1ST. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. A small boat had been reported capsized off Hove, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 17s. 6d..
FEBRUARY 1ST . - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A large raft was seen about a mile east of the North Southwick Buoy, but no one was found on board. - Rewards, £31 4s.
REFLOATED Anstruther, Fife. At 5.3 p.m. on ist April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Quiet Waters was ashore off Pittenweem harbour entrance. The lifeboat James and Ruby Jackson was...