The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 10.45 P-m- °n 29tn June, 1967, it was learned that flares had been sighted 14 miles east south east of the Lizard. This was confirmed by the Norwegian motor vessel Possum. The life-boat, The Duke of...
Caister, Norfolk.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 21st of July. 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Fiducia, of Rotterdam, was ashore on the mainland at Waxham, but as the weather was calm she did not need help. The Fiducia...
The turning of the tide Three men were enjoying a day's angling at Aberporth when they were caught out by the biggest tide of the year. Within moments the trio were stranded on rocks, 100m from the shore ^^Despite the bad weather, many...
LONG before the war ended the Institution had made plans to rebuild a great part of its fleet. It lost six boats, destroyed by the enemy, and more serious even than this loss were the delays. In the last four years of the war the building of...
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During a moderate S.W. to W. gale, with a heavy sea, a message was re- ceived at 7.15 P.M. on the 10th January that at 3.15 P.M. the fishing boat L'Arguenon, of St. Malo, was in diffi- culties. The crew of the Motor Life- boat Queen...
On the 24th April an intimation by telephone was received that a large vessel was aground on the North Leman Sand.
The No. 2 Life - boat Margaret was launched, and after sailing about seventeen miles, fell in with the...
Wicklow. — On the evening of the 17th of May, 1950, the local fishing boat C. S. Parnell, with a crew of four, left for the fishing ground five miles south of Wicklow. The weather grew bad, a fresh north-easterly wind causing a rough sea....
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.40 in the morning on the 1 st of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned a report received from Seaforth Radio that a motor vessel was disabled and drifting three miles north of Skerries. She was the Barrule, of...
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a local crab boat was showing a red flag on an oar two and a half miles east-by-north of the coastguard...
Hastings, Sussex. —• At 6.20 in the morning of the 13th of November, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning flares about two miles off Winchelsea, and later the Winchelsea coast watcher reported that the boat was...