North Sunderland and Holy Island, Northumberland.—Four Beadnell fish- ing boats were overtaken by bad weather on the morning of the 30th October and made for home. The pulling and sailing life-boat Lizzie Porter was hauled on her carriage to...
27th February. A trawler ran ashore, but the Board of Trade rocket apparatus had rescued the crew before the life-boat arrived.— Rewards, £10 6s. 3d..
Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—17th January. A steamer had grounded near the South Shingle Buoy, but refloated without help.— Rewards: Southend, £20 18s. 6d.; Margate, £22 18s. Qd..
Sheringham, Norfolk. — 7th April, 1938. A steamer had reported by wireless, through Humber Radio Station, that she had seen an aeroplane fall into the sea in flames near the Dudgeon Light-vessel, but a long search revealed no trace of the...
Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-—1st June, 1938. A yacht was in difficulties off Kimmeridge, but her crew got ashore unaided.—Rewards, £8 15s..
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the 3rd February the coastguard telephoned that conditions at sea were very bad, and that all the local cobles, thirteen in number, were out. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a very rough...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — 2 n d August. A motor boat had burnt flares for help, but a R.A.F. boat took her in tow.—Rewards, £7 105..
Fowey, Cornwall.— 6th September.
A motor launch with eight people on board was making heavy weather, but reached safety.—Rewards, £6 13s..
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—10th March, 1939. A fishing boat had gone ashore, but she refloated unaided.—Rewards, £17 105..
Shoreham Harbour, and Worthing, Sussex.
—On the afternoon of the 30th May, 1939, a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...