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Two saved in harbour drama Faced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
The S.S. Northeastern Victory, of San Francisco
DECEMBER 24TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the Deal coastguard reported that a vessel had been seen at noon heading towards the Goodwin Sands.
It was misty, and she had not been seen...
Rosalind
The Life-boat Coxswain at Hythe telephoned to the Dover Coxswain at 2 A.M. on the 1st July that a small yacht was making a distress signal by continuously sound- ing her fog-horn about half a mile off the Hythe Life-boat House. As the Hythe...
Amy II
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.22 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a yacht near it in urgent need of help.
Eleven minutes later the...
Gold Mist
Dover, Kent.—At 2.28 early on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Lloyds signal station reported that a yacht was drifting off South Foreland.
At 2.40 the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3). on temporary...
Ebb Tide
CRYSTAL CLEAR A curious story emerged when the motor cruiser Ebb Tide of Chiswick lost oil and needed assistance on 9th June. The Dover, Kent, life-boat Faithful Forester—she is one of six 44-foot steel life-boats in service—went out at 6.37...
One Man, one vision
Imagine you’re out at sea, having fallen from a boat somewhere off the coast of the UK or Republic of Ireland. You’re treading cold, rough water.
And then you hear engines, and you see a splash...
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Parthia
Trent saves five in gale force winds and very heavy seas When a northerly gale is blowing against a spring tide conditions in the English Channel near the island of Alderney can be very unpleasant indeed. It was in just these conditions that...
Orion
Life-boat O.N. 44-001 Life-boat O.N. 44-001 - At 12.10 p.m.
on 26th March, 1966, while on passage from Dover to Littlehampton, the lifeboat O.N. 44-001 came upon the yacht Orion of Newhaven which was burning distress flares...
Ruffian (1)
Swim to yacht A YACHT AGROUND on rocks in the vicinity of Beckermet, about six miles south of St Bees, was reported to the honorary secretary of St Bees lifeboat station by Liverpool Coastguard at 0400 on Sunday August 29, 1982. It was an...