HOLY ISLAND.—On the 21st March, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sea, and the night was very dark. The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great...
FEBRUARY 10TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND . A t 8.20 P.M. fishermen reported that a vessel was ashore on the Outer Carrs Rocks, north of Newbiggin Point. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
JANUARY 21ST. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that a vessel half a mile to the north-west had fired a rocket and hoisted a signal, and the motor life-boat Louisa Polden was launched at 7...
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull and North Sand Head light-vessels on the 14th January, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, and Christopher Waud, Bradford, of Broadstairs, left their stations at 7.45 P.M....
FEBRUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 2.25 P.M. the coastguard reported that H.M. Trawler Clotilde was ashore on the north beach about one hundred yards from the north pier, and ten minutes later the naval authorities...
Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
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OCTOBER 20TH. - ABERDEEN . A t 8.15 P.M. the Gregness coastguard reported that a steamer had been torpedoed nine miles off. An E.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at 8.50 P.M....
NORTH DEAL—The coxswain of the Life-boat Mary Somerville was called, at about 1.30 A.M. on the 12th December, by the Coastguard, who informed him that guns and rockets were being fired by the Gull light-vessel. He at once summoned the crew,...
On the 2nd Feb.
this Life-boat, the Covent Garden, was launched five times, with a succession of fresh crews, and ultimately succeeded in saving 13 lives from the schooners Ram- Wer, of Wexford, and Mary Ann, of Ply- mouth...
TOP VIEW OP A TWO-CYLINDER RAFT.
SIDE VIEW SHOWING STRINGER PIECES, ETC.
SECTIONAL VIEW, CUT TRANSVEBBELT, OF A THREE-CYLINDER RAFT.
THE recent passage across the Atlantic Ocean, from...
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