FRASERBURGH.—During a terrific gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea on the17th December, the ketch Favourite, of Sunderland, was observed at about 10 o'clock in the morning running towards Praserburgh from the Moray Firth with sails spent....
On the 4th Jan- uary, 1869, the trawler Start, of Brixham, was observed trying to beat to windward to obtain the shelter of Babbicombe Bay, a gale blowing at the time from the S.W., with a considerable sea. Just then she lost her mast in a...
On the morn- ing of the 15th January, a man ran from Dunwich to Southwold to the house of the coxswain of the life-boat of the National Institution, and informed him that a boat was driving down from Dunwich with men in her, and was fast...
'Tw night! npou the Cornish coast lull load the breakers roar, And helplessly yon gallant barque Drifts on the dark lee shore ; And quickly now the signal gnns Boom high above the gale.
O many a dark-ey'd Cornish...
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On 30th January at 9 A.M., in consequence of a signal from the Hock Lighthouse, at the entrance of the Mersey, that a ship was in distress at the back the banks on "Square 43," the Lifeboat Willie and Arthur proceeded down the...
On November 14, at about 2.30 A.M., two flares were seen on the Scroby Sand, and rockets were fired from the St.
Nicholas Light. The Leicester Life-boat immediately put off, and on reaching the sand a vessel was discovered...
NEW ROMNEY.—Late in the evening of the 10th April, the Dutch schooner Tobina, of Pekela, from Sunderland, dragged her anchors during a strong gale, and was seen from the shore to strike on the Eoar Bank, heel over, and go down. The crew...
The pilot-cutter Providence arrived at Harwich on the 3rd March flying signals denoting that the Life-boat was required.
The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Life-boat in tow, promptly went out, and...
At 2.15 P.M.
on the 29th September, the Prawle Coastguard telephoned that a man had swum ashore for help from a motor-boat which was in difficulties off Prawle Point. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
In response to a telephone message from Thorpeness on the 17th September the No. 1 Life-boat City of Winchester was launched, great difficulty being experienced in getting the boat afloat owing to the heavy sea running and the bad state of...