At midday on the 27th January some of the life-boat crew saw a man in a canoe making his way down channel. A squally N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. ' Although the man appeared to be in no need of...
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1955, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from the Barrow pilot boat. The pilot boat had found the 24-feet sailing yacht...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 12th of June, 1956, the coast- guard reported that the local long- shore boat Eva May, with one man on.
board, had left harbour at nine o'clock the morning before, but had not...
Caister, Norfolk.—About noon on the 29th of July, 1957, a small boat was seen from the boathouse to be flying a distress flag. She was towing a larger vessel and appeared to be mak- ing little progress north of the north- west Scroby buoy....
Hastings, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1960, the life-boat mechanic asked the coastguard to keep a catamaran under observation.
As the weather was becoming rapidly worse and the boat could not be...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 3rd of April, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that three pedigree cows had fallen over a cliff at Manorbier. Two of the cows were in a position which was inaccessible from...
AT 5.18 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, a Liberian ship wire- lessed that the S.S. Western Farmer, of New York, on passage from Norfolk (Virginia) to Bremen with a cargo of coal, had been in collision with the Norwegian tanker...
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On the even- ing of the 21st July two men and two women visitors put out from the har- bour in the motor yacht Maroc, in a moderate N.W. breeze, with a rough sea, not knowing the danger they would run in returning. The motor life-boat...
In answer to a telegram stating that a barge was in distress seven miles E. of Wakering Haven, the No. 2 Life-boat Theodore and Herbert was launched at 3 P.M.
on the 17th December, during a strong...