At 7.15 p.m. on i3th September, 1966, the vessel Commodore Charles H. Smith reported having picked up two survivors from a small ketch which they had then taken in tow. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 8.20 in a light west north...
GORLESTON. — On the 1st January, 1895, the steamers Sent, of London, and Kirkstall, of Shields, which had been detained in the roadstead by stress of weather, ran short of provisions and each sent a boat ashore to obtain supplies. A moderate...
Although not part of the Little Ships flotilla African Queen, the boat made famous by Humphrey Bogart in the film of the same name, attempted to make the passage to Dunkirk. She got into difficulties and had to be towed into Ramsgate by the... - View image in PDF
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The trial in progress: on parallel courses about 100 yards apart, Arun 52-02 and Thames 50-001 drive through rough seas at about 17 knots. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Guernsey Evening Press. - View image in PDF
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A MAYDAY RELAY message from the Danish motor vessel Charlottenburg was heard by St Peter Port Signal Station at 1323 on Sunday December 13, 1981.
Charlottenburg was going to the assistance of Bonita, an Ecuadorian motor...
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on the 20th April the coxswain of the Life-boat Charles Dibdin observed a vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and shortly afterwards the Gull Light-vessel commenced to signal for assistance to be sent. The crew of the...
CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the...
CEMAES AND CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—The s.s. Cameroon, of Glasgow, bound from the Canary Islands for Liverpool, with passengers and a cargo of African produce, stranded on the rocks at Galanddu Point, near Wylfa Head, in foggy weather on the...
On the night of the 24th of September, 1958, the Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat took a sick man off the Morecambe Bay lightvessel in very heavy seas. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 131, Coxwain Roland Moore was...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1957, the coxswain was told that a small boat was in difficulties close inshore near the Hartlepool breakwater. He went out in the pilot cutter to in- vestigate, but...