St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
About 10 P.M. on the 7th January, two steamers, the Stella Maris, of Glasgow, and Oria, of Bilbao, collided off the Skerries.
Within five minutes of the collision the latter vessel sank, but happily her crew were able to...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.29 on the morning of the 9th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was along- side the Mid Barrow lightvessel and that her crew were asking for the assist- ance of a life...
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.32 on the night of the 1st of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen five miles north-west of Buckie. There was a light east-south-easterly wind with a...
Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and the actions of the Humber lifeboat crew...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: The coaster Sea Rhine, her cargo shifted, founders. Her mate had been taken off by the 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami.. - View image in PDF
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Walmer, Kent - At 3.45 p.m. on 2yth December, 1966, a large steamer was thought to be aground near the B.I.
buoy on the Brake Sands. Visibility was poor and the vessel was just visible. The life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
IN the last quarter of 1957 there were a number of long and exacting searches by life-boats after aircraft had crashed. Unfortunately, as happens so often when aircraft come down in the sea, it was impossible to rescue any survivors. Details...
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Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.14 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1958, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the Brake Sands and bumping badly.
At 10.23 the life-boat Michael and Lily...