The paragraph headed 'Life-boat Up Thames' on page 149 of the July Journal referred, of course, to Kingston and Surbiton. It had been planned that those mentioned should be there, but in fact they were not, and the 'mystery...
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DINGHIES AND CANOES IN TROUBLE IN CHOPPY SEA Swanage, Dorset. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 22nd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a fibre-glass dinghy with an outboard motor was in difficulties on Peveril Ledge, but...
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The frigate Cheboque, of the Royal Canadian Navy, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles away, with the loss of one of her crew of forty-three, and severe damage to her stern...
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At about 4 p.m. on 2oth June, 1965, the coxswain and another man were watching dinghies racing in the estuary when a sudden gust of wind capsized four dinghies at once. The sailing club's rescue boats were...
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HASTINGS AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 12.40 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard and the police that an aeroplane was down in the sea. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The...
MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
The smacks John and ftrace, of Mjlford, and Mary, of j Cardigan, having, from the violence of the gale, then blowing from N.E., parted their cables and driven on to the Grood- wick Sands, the Life-boat Sir Edward Perrott was launched and...
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 6th January, 1898, the coxswain of the Life-boat Hearts of Oak was informed that flares had been shown in the direc- tion of the Middle Happisburgh Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were at once...
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Workington, Cumberland. At 11.20 on the morning of the 2nd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was drifting a mile and a half off Working- ton. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX left her...
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. At 6.15 p.m. on loth July, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the motor fishing 'vessel Concord had broken down'7!^ miles south-east of Gourdon. The life-boat the Edith Clouson-Thue...