SELSEY, SUSSEX.—On the 8th February the Life-boat Two Sisters was launched to the aid of the three-masted schooner Kyanite, of Guernsey, which was in a position of much peril, having parted from both her anchors during a strong westerly gale...
ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.—On the 24th October the schooner Rambler, of Folkestone, was seen to be running for the shore at Aldborough with a flag of distress in her rigging, during a heavy gale of wind from S.S.W., and a very rough sea. She...
.— On the 29th November a strong S.S.E. breeze sprang up, bringing with it a very heavy sea.
At the time seven of the fishing boats belonging to Montrose were at sea, and the thirty men forming their crews were in jeopardy....
PENMON.—On the 3rd July the schooner Broughty Castle, of Bamsey, Jaden with salt, stranded on the Causeway Bock in a strong N.W. breeze. The Life-boat Christopher Brown went to her assistance and attempted to heave her off, but the hawser...
Montrose, Angus.—On the morning of the 5th October the sea, which had been making with the ebb tide, rapidly became worse, and by low water was breaking right across the bar. Several of the smaller fishing boats were at sea, and as they...
The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat and the Brothers, of Yarmouth, on the 30th May, 1938. (See page 548.). - View image in PDF
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Mrs. Bella Mattison, the Cullercoats fisherwife who has collected £2,000 for the Institution, with the Cullercoats coxswain (right) and second-coxswain. - View image in PDF
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The Lizard motor life-boat coming ashore with the crew of the D. L. Harper.. - View image in PDF
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Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 11.54 on the night of the 26th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Lyn- well lightvessel had reported that a cabin cruiser had burnt a red flare a hundred yards from the lightvessel.
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.30 on the night of the 28th of July, 1956, the St. Peter Port signal station re- ported that a yacht was on the rocks in Saint Bay. The life-boat Euphro- syne Kendal put out at 10.54 with the bowman in charge....