Hoylake, Cheshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.
1955. the life-boat coxswain reported that he had seen a yacht in Hilbre Swash and thought she would be in a dangerous position if the weather...
• Sea Rescue by Gardner Soule (Macrae Smith Company, Philadelphia) is written by a journalist and brings an urgent, exciting interest to a wide range of dramatic sea stories. Ranging from the recovery of splashed-down spacemen to broken...
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Sea food: members of Largs Junior Chamber of Commerce appear remarkably unconcerned by what is clearly a severe case of rising damp during a recent dinner staged on the slipway of the lifeboat station. This chilling experience, devised... - View image in PDF
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Search success AT 1820 ON FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1987, Tyne Tees Coastguards were alerted by the mother of one of two men aboard the Hartlepool-based fishing boat Sea Fox that the vessel was six hours overdue at the east coast...
... and (left) after the Duchess had named Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II, she and the Duke are welcomed aboard by Coxswain John Dare and his crew.. - View image in PDF
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Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.
A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.
—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...
Anstruther, Fifeshlre. — About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Royal Air Force rescue launch had picked up a badly injured airman from an R.A.F. heli- copter, which during...
Patron Emil Guyot, a new 'a/1 seasons' lifeboat from France, will be stationed at Belle lie. Photograph by courtesy of Dag Pike. - View image in PDF
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Youngsters 'bop the night away' at Glasgow's Twelfth Night Ball. Photo Paul Reid. - View image in PDF
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