Six survivors snatched from yacht in Force 9 gale and heavy seas A service to a 50ft yacht by St Peter Port's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold in atrocious weather conditions resulted in media headlines throughout the country - and...
NURSE TAKEN TO MAINLAND IN GALE Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 4.45 on the morning of the 8th March, 1963, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient of his needed an operation urgently. The doctor had asked for an air ambulance...
JANUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 6.5 P . M .
a message was received from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a steamer, about five miles at sea, was making signals on her siren, but that they were not...
JANUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 6.5 P . M .
a message was received from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a steamer, about five miles at sea, was making signals on her siren, but that they were not...
Newhaven, Sunday December 13: Soon after midday two calls were received in quick succession. A gale, gusting above force 10, was blowing from south south east; the spring tide was in the first hour of the ebb and seas in the harbour and at...
Walmer, Kent.—In the morning of the 2nd of January, 1949, a strong south-westerly gale was blowing, and at 9.30 the agents for the S.S. Baron, which was in the Downs, reported that she was in urgent need of food and asked the life-boat to...
On the morning of the 24th February the dredger Sisyphus, of Dublin, which was anchored in the harbour, signalled for help. A strong to whole E.S.E. gale was blowing, a very heavy sea was running and it was snowing. The motor life-boat...
The Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched shortly before 9 A.M. on the 28th March to the assistance of twenty-three of the fishing cobles, which had put to sea earlier in the morning for the purpose of hauling their crab pots. The wind was...
Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1949, a vessel was seen to be stopped about five miles oft shore, and it was thought that she was on Sheringham Shoal. The life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.25, in...
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