Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 in the early morning of the 18th of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning red flares off Sandsfoot Castle, Portland, and that the naval authorities were sending a tug. At 3.30...
On the 13th April a barque, which proved to be the Lucy, of Antwerp, was seen to be in distress on the Burnham Flats, five miles and a half from the shore. The Braacaster Lifeboat, the •Joseph and Mary, was launched as soon as horses could...
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JUNE 21ST. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
At 8.26 A.M. the coastguard reported that a ship’s boat was drifting down channel six miles north of Hurlstone Point. A fresh easterly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life...
On board Grace Paterson Ritchie Mr M. Olsen (left), on behalf of the Faroese Life-saving Society, presents Lieut.-Commander P. E. C.
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.— About 9.10 on the night of the 21st of August, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw flares burning about a quarter of a mile north-east of Porth- dinllaen Point. He told the coast- guard and the life-boat...
ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...