Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.58 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the coaster Humber- gate was aground half a mile south of Easington. The life-boat City of Brad- ford HI was...
Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the...
MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that theferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of twelve men on board, had broken down when half-way...
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At six in the morning the coastguard reported a drifter ashore on the rocks near St. Combs. A light southeast wind was blowing, but the sea was rough on the beach and there was some fog.
Burnham on Crouch station open day 2000. - View image in PDF
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Left to right - Mr and Mrs Tomlmson. Andrew Hartwell. MD of George Hartwell Ltd, Brendan Eley, Andrew Malyon, Gerry Knight, Mrs Maylon and Mrs Knight.. - View image in PDF
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Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, the honorary secretary of the Life-boat Stamp Club, reports that the club is growing, but that the demand for stamps is greater than the supply.
Besides...
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an angler, while fishing from the beach at Rossall Point, had seen a light being flashed from an open motor...
Collision Aftermath The collision between the cruise liner Norwegian Dream and the container vessel Ever Decent off the coast of Kent in the early hours of Tuesday 24 August 1999 comes as a sharp reminder of how important it is to be...
WICKLOW | 20 JUNE
When a woman slipped and fell while stepping ashore from a moored boat, it was lucky that RNLI Helm Vinnie Mulvihill was at hand. Vinnie was tending the Wicklow lifeboat when he heard shouting and realised that...
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