Dungeness, Kent - At 10 a.m. on 30th April, 1967, a yacht was reported ashore at St. Mary's Bay between the groynes and close to the sea wall. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a moderate south west wind and a smooth sea. It...
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 12.20 A.M.
on the 2nd August, 1938, the police reported that a vessel had been dashed against Skegness Pier. A fresh E.N.E.
wind was blowing, with a choppy sea, and the tide was...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 12.43 on the afternoon of the 1st of June, 1953, the Arklow lightvessel wirelessed that her tender Willie Wag, of Arklow, with a crew of four, had broken down after leaving the lightvessel. This message was heard...
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat stationed in 1868 at Boss Links, Holy Island, has recently been replaced by a new one, 31 feet long, 7£ feet wide and towing 10 oars, double banked. It possesses all the latest improvements, as...
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THE table below gives details of the services of the life-boats during a period of twenty-four hours on the 28th-29th of July.
Station Launches Casualty Hours at sea Lives rescued ...
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Eleven hour escort TWO COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS, Kenneth William of Brancaster and Mor- Nita of Wells were at sea off Wells on the morning of Friday November 21, 1986 in a north-easterly storm force 10 and in very rough and heavy seas.<...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.24 in the morning of the 10th of April, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a boat drifting to the north-east, and at •2.40 the motor life-boat Prudential was launched in a...
Dover, Kent.—At 8.35 in the evening, on the 9th of July, 1950, the Sandgate coastguai'd telephoned that a sailing ship seemed to be in difficulties east of Dover. At 8.50 the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. The sea was...
Shortly before 10 P.M. on the 9th January the Norwegian steamer Zeus, bound from Havre to Burntisland in ballast,stranded about half a mile to the south of Flam- borough Head. Information of the casualty was telephoned to the cox- swain of...
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1952, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare about one and a half miles north of Rossall Point, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann Letitia...