The fish- ing boat Vivid, belonging to Wexford, struck on the Dogger Bank when re- turning from the fishing grounds on the llth January. Signals of distress were made, and with great promptness the crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15...
At about 4.20 P.M. on the 2nd September a telephone message was received stating that a vessel was ashore on the Gorton sands.
The steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 proceeded with all despatch to the sands, and found the...
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 6th January, 1898, the coxswain of the Life-boat Hearts of Oak was informed that flares had been shown in the direction of the Middle Happisburgh Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were at once...
AIRCRAFT AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR FISHING BOAT Barrow, Lancashire. At 10.45 on the morning of the 26th February, 1963, the Formby coastguard reported that the fishing boat Signora of Peel had burnt flares twelve miles north-west-by-west of...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th Sep- tember, 1961, relatives of the crew of five of the yacht Airy Mouse telephoned the honorary secretary to say the yacht, which had left Alderney at 11.30 the...
At 12.42 a.m. on 22nd April, 1967, it was reported that a yacht had been seen firing distress flares near the Shingles Bank. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched at 12.58 in a moderate north westerly breeze and a slight...
During a strong gale from the S.W., on the morning of the 1st De- cember, signal-guns were fired from the Gull Light Ship. The Aid steam-tug and the- Bradford life-boat were immediately got ready, and in the course of twenty mi- nutes...
WALMER On the morning of the 5th February, the coxswain of the Centurion Life-boat was informed by a boat's crew that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands; but as the wind and sea were nearly calm at the time, he did not think it...
HOLYHEAD.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out on service on the morning of the 26th Jan., 1893, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Sarah, of and from Fowey for Euncorn, which had stranded on the...
In a strong N. wind on the 18th July the hull of a new steamer—the Time, built for Melbourne—was being towed from the shipbuilder's yard to West Hartlepool in order to have her engines fitted. The hawsers carried away and the Time was...