Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.35 on the evening of the 25th of August, 1959, a sailing yacht which had just left Spurn was seen to be in difficulties and drifting towards the Admiralty boom. The life-boat City of Bradford III, which was at...
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 12.5 early on the morning of the 14th of Decem- ber, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares were being fired from a vessel near Fersness Point, Isle of Eday. The life-boat The John Gellatly...
Blyth, Northumberland. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary at New- biggin asked the honorary secretary at Blyth if the crew of the coble Morning Joy, which had entered Blyth, had any information...
Swanage, Dorset. At 12.54 early on the morning of the 17th of January, 1960, the police told the honorary secretary that three young men who had been climbing cliffs to the west of Durlston Head were missing. The police had organised a...
Appledore, Devon. On the 13th of April, 1960, the motor vessel Lundy Gannet was returning from Lundy Island to Bideford on the evening tide with six people on board, including four passengers, when the keel band came adrift and threatened to...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.45 on the morning of the llth of August, 1956, the Needles coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with two people on board was ashore on the Shingles.
As the weather was deteriorating, the...
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 2nd of June, 1957, the piermaster telephoned to say that a motor cruiser was in a very dangerous position off the end of Brean Down and needed help. The life-boat Frank and...
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 10.45 on the night of the 24th of December, 1957, the honorary secretary received a message that there was an injured man who needed a doctor on board the tanker Hemisinus, of London, 150 miles south of Wolf Rock. A...
Caister, Norfolk. At 4.10 on the morning of the 26th of January, 1958, the Great Yarmouth coastguard told the coxswain that the motor vessel Fosdyke Trader of Hull was aground on Caister shoal 400 yards west-north-west of Caister Elbow buoy....
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 11.30 on the night of the 18th of April, 1958, the agent for the steam trawler Buzzard, of Fleetwood, asked the honorary sec- retary if the life-boat would land a man from the trawler, who was seriously...