Soon after mid- day on the 28th April, during a S.W.
gale accompanied by a rough sea, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwins. The Life-boat Brad- ford proceeded to the Sands and found the fishing vessel...
From the coast near this i port, on the 2ud January, by the first light 1 of breaking day, the masts of a vessel were | observed looming faintly through the haze of a S.W. storm. It was presently ascer- tained that the vessel herself...
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—Considerable anxiety was felt here on the 16th August, as to the safety of two pleasure boats with five visitors on board which had set out for Peel. At 9.45 P.M. the wind blew a gale from the S.S.W., the sea was rough,...
Anstruther, Fifeshlre. — About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Royal Air Force rescue launch had picked up a badly injured airman from an R.A.F. heli- copter, which during...
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.29 P.M. on the 9th September, 1939, the coastguard at Fairlight reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea a mile to the east. The weather was clear and the sea was calm. At 9.35 the...
BEAUNTON.—The Life-boat Robert and Catherine was launched at 8.30 P.M. on the 7th December, during a W.S.W. gale and a heavy broken sea, to the assistance of the brigantine Chalciope, of Fleetwood, bound from Corunna for Cardiff with pitwood...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.10 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, tne coastguard told the honorary sec- retary of a message received from the police that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized off Butlin's holiday camp. The life-boat...
On the morning of .the 23rd November the schooner Fer- nand,, of St. .Male, stranded on the West Sand, at the entrance of Blakeney Harbour.
;In the evening it came on to blow heavily from E.S.E., causing a very bad sea,...
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Once a year the divisional inspectors of lifeboats meet in conference at Pools. (I. to r., back row first) Lieut.-Commander A. M.
'Mike'1 Woodroffe, south east; M. G. K.
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