Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.
and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...
At 11 A.M. on the 12th April the Coastguard reported that a schooner in the Margate Roads was flying distress signals. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was at once summoned and the boat launched.
When she was...
— At 11.35 P.M. on the 9th June, during a strong westerly gale, it was reported to the Coxswain, W. Cross, that a man had swum ashore from a fishing-boat and stated that four men aboard were in danger. The crew of the steam Life-boat Queen...
Shortly before 3 A.M. on the 28th January a message was received from the Coast- guard stating that a steamer was ashore between Bull Point and Morthoe.
The Life-boat Co-operator No. 2 was ; very smartly launched, the...
Just after day- break on the 12th November a schooner- rigged vessel was observed coming in from the eastward, and as a strong S.E.
by E. wind was blowing a watch was kept on her. From time to time she was lost sight of in...
On the I night of the 13th April a strong N.
I gale suddenly sprang up, and about i 11.30 P.M. one of the cobles returning j from the lobster pots reported that the ' weather was very bad at sea, and not fit ...
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 12th August, a telephone message was received at New Brighton, stating that the training brig, James J.
Bibby, of Liverpool, was ashore on...
— At 8.30 P.M. on the 30th September the Life- boat James Stevens No. 9 was called out in answer to rockets from the Nore light-vessel. On reaching the " Nore," the Master reported that he had been repeating signals made from the...
On January 14th the Coastguard reported what appeared to them to be the sudden disappearance of a small yacht off the Skerries Bell Buoy. The time was then 5.35 P.M., and the Motor Life-boat George Shee put out.
A S.W....