HAUXLEY.—The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 14th February to the assistance of the fishing coble Lyra, of Newbiggin, which was in distress in a gale from the W.S.W.
and a heavy sea. The boat...
JUNE 21ST. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 7.20 in the morning the naval authorities, through the coastguard, asked for the services of the lifeboat to land an injured man from a destroyer coming into the roads, and at 7.40 A.M....
RAMSGATE.—The schooner Alnwick, of Beaumaris, bound from London for Workington with cement, ran for the harbour from the Downs for shelter while a strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, on the evening of the 5th October, but missed the entrance and...
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was running; so...
The Men and the Boats by Bernard Ashley (Allman & Son, 15s.) is appro- priately the first book in a new series entitled 'Serving our Society'. Other volumes on the police and the fire service are in preparation. The book is...
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Montrose, Angus.—Retween eight and nine on the morning of the 27th August the wind increased to a strong S.S.E.
gale. In the face of a strong ebb tide this set up a heavy sea on the bar, and made the entrance into harbour...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On Whit Monday, the 29th May, 1939, the life-boat coxswain was told by the coastguard at about 8 P.M. that a motor vessel was in difficulties about a mile to the S.S.E.
The weather was fine, but the sea...
About 7 A.M. on the 3rd November, the same Life-boat launched to the brigantine Harmston, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which vessel was stranded on the Middle Cross Sand off Caister. A gale from the S.S.E, was blowing, with the usual heavy seas on...
On the 13th January, at about 7 P.M., it having been reported that a vessel was ashore at Porto Bello, about 4 miles distant from Newhaven, the Life-boat went to her assistance. A light S.S.W. wind was blowing at the time, and the weather...