Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 10.5 on the night of the 6th of August, 1952, distress signals were seen. At the same time a telephone message was received by the honorary secretary from a fishing party that they had tried unsuccessfully...
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1952, the Penmon coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported aground on the Dutchman Bank, and at 5.40 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.14 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1952, the coastguard said he had learnt from a wireless signal that distress rockets had been seen four miles east- by-north of Cromer. The life-boat Henry Blogg was launched...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—About 8.40 on the morning of the 8th of January.
1953, the motor vessel Braywick, of London, which had a crew of nine, wirelessed that she had broken down and needed a tug three miles north- east...
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At half past ten on the morning of the llth of February, 1950, the coastguard tele- phoned that a coble and a motor boat with a lighter laden with coal in tow, were in difficulties off the Tyne Harbour entrance....
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...
Dover, Kent.—On the morning of the 3rd June six children belonging to the Dover garrison were cut off by the tide under Shakespeare Cliff. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor boarding boat William Myatt, attached to...
THE great increase in the number of services since the outbreak of war would make it necessary nearly to double the size of The Life-boat if each quarterly number were to contain accounts of all life-boat services for three...
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Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...