Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.33 on the afternoon of the 19th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was flying a distress signal a quarter of a mile south-west of Clacton pier. The life- boat Sir...
Queensferry's Atlantic 21 lifeboat station is another which is easily found by reference to a famous structure, as clearly shown on the left! The station itself is at the very bottom of the photo, at the landward end of the pier to the... - View image in PDF
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On the 17th February, the smack John Bull, of Yarmouth, parted from her anchors, and went ashore on the beach at that place.
The smaller Yarmouth life-boat was soon launched, and proceeded to her through a heavy surf....
Early on the morning of the 9th March, signals of dis- tress were seen binning in the direction of the Cross Sand. The alarm was at once given, and the Winterton life-boat was con- veyed along the beach and launched; but the wind and sea...
On the night of the 24th October, 1868, during a whole | gale from the W.N.W., the steamer Augusta, of Bristol, went on the Doom Bar i Sand. When her signals of distress were i seen from the shore, the " City of Bristol" j...
DEAL AND RAMSGATE.—On the 14th October, at about 5 P.M., during a very heavy gale of wind, the Gull Lightship fired signals of distress, in response to which the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville proceeded to the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate...
ON the morning of 17th January the 2,500-ton steamer Plawsworth, of New- castle-on-Tyne, which was at anchor off Workington, Cumberland, dragged her anchors in a south-west gale, and went ashore. A very heavy sea was...
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MARGATE.—On the 2nd February, during a S.W. wind, the weather and sea being moderate, signals were observed from the Tongue Lightship about 7 P.M., in reply to which the Quiver Life-boat proceeded to her, and learned that a vessel was in...
SOUTHWOLD.—The fishing-punt Mary Ann was observed making for the shore in a moderate gale from S. by E., on the 16th January. As it was impossible for the boat to cross the shoal in safety, the Life-boat Quiver No. 2, went to her assistance,...
The schooner Surprise, of Arbroath, whilst bound from Invergordon to Hartlepool with a cargo of timber, stranded near the mouth of the River Ugie on the 31st January. The) Coastguard re- ported it to the coxswain of the Life- boat George...