The Charles Dibdin Life-boat was launched at 10 P.M. on the llth November, during a whole northerly gale, to a vessel which was burning flares in the Downs off Deal. On reaching the vessel she proved to be the barge Briton, of London, with...
At 7.30 A.M. on the 8th December, during a dense fog, the watchman reported that a vessel was ashore on the beach, one mile to the eastward of the watch-house. The crew of the Life-boat were at once assembled and proceeded in the...
In response to signals of distress, the Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was launched at 3 P.M.
on the 2nd December, and rescued the crew of four hands of the fishing-boat JehoiaJi Wick, of Hoylake, which was in distress...
GREAT YARMOUTH.—Flares and rockets having been observed in the roadstead while a strong N. to N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, on the 8th September, the Life-boat John Burch was launched at 9.35 P.M. and proceeded in the...
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—On the morning of the. 18th February the coastguard reported that the motor trawler Princess Charming, of Grimsby, which was off Holborn Head, was in need of immediate help. She was fishing out of Scrabster, and her...
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — 12th March. The motor life-boat J. and W.
was launched at 1.30 P.M. as the coastguard had reported that a vessel in Luce Bay was flying distress signals.
A strong S.E. gale was...
Appledore, Devon. — At 11.33 A.M.
on the 14th August the coastguard reported that a yacht one mile N.W.
from Fairway buoy was showing flares.
She was the auxiliary yacht Wendy, of Bristol...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 9.20 P.M. on the 6th September it was reported that a boy and a girl had left Lymington for Yarmouth some hours earlier in the sailing boat Mary Anne, but had not arrived. The honorary secretary, Captain A....
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.12 P.M. on the 4th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small open sailing boat, about a mile and a half from the lookout, was making very heavy weather.
The crew were bailing and she...