Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—3rd October, 1938. A small sailing boat had been reported in distress between Warden Point and the Nore, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £9 17s..
Margate, Kent.—At 2.50 on the after- noon of the 1st of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that he had received a message from Kingsgate that two men in a sailing boat three quarters of a mile off Joss Bay were waving an oar. At three...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.36 on the afternoon of the 20th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had had her mast carried away one mile east of the look-out. At three o'clock there...
Newbiggin, Northumberland - At 3.27 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, news was received that the sailing club rescue launch had broken an engine shaft while towing a dinghy out of difficulty near the Needle's Eye rocks. At 3.39 the life-boat...
Hoylake, Cheshire; and Rhyl, Flint- shire.—At 9.30 on the night of the 5th of September, 1952, the Formby coast- guard telephoned to the Hoylake life- boat station a report from the Heswall police that two men had left Heswall in a...
Four rescued ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Both photographs are reproduced by courtesy of Edgar Colling, of Whitby.. - View image in PDF
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DEC. 1ST. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.
At 11.10 A.M. a fishing boat was seen drifting about three miles E.S.E. of Sunderland. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton - on...
FOLLOWING A MESSAGE received at 1553 on Saturday March 29, that a.sailing longboat from Wellesley Nautical School Community Home with six crew and an instructor on board had capsized one mile south of the fairway buoy, Blyth D class...
Morning: Harold Appleton, one of the Shoreline Bout Show team, talking to Crew Member Lex Fay of Blyth.. - View image in PDF
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