Swanage, Dorset.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1954, when the life-boat was about to be launched for the life-boat flag-day, a police sergeant told the coxswain that a woman was missing and was thought to be on a cliff at...
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1955, the Stornoway coast- guard telephoned that a message had been received from the Oban radio station that the steam trawler Moni- mia, of Fleetwood,...
Wick, Caithness-shire,—At 2.12 on the morning of the 5fch of February, 1957, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the trawler Warwick Deeping, of Hull, was some fifty miles south of Dennis Head with her port side damaged. At 2.54 the...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.23 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1957, the Formby coastguard telephoned that one of the crew of the fishing boat Mary, of Liverpool, who had just waded ashore, had reported that the boat was aground with...
Dungeness, Kent. At 5.30 on the morning of the 26th of November, 1957, a member of the life-boat crew reported that a vessel was ashore a mile and a half west of the life-boat station.
The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was...
Swanage, Dorset. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the Swanage ambulance station that a man had fallen down the cliffs near Ballard Point. At 2.41 the life- boat R.L.P. was...
Torbay, Devon. At 7.27 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vliestroom had asked for the help of a life-boat as she was standing by the yacht Canores. The yacht had lost...
Cronier, Norfolk. At 7.10 on the evening of the 6th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red parachute flare had been fired from the motor launch Gay Crusader one mile east-north-east of Cromer. The no. 1...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 11.20 on the morning of the 30th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Seaton Carew had reported that two boys and two girls in a canoe were in difficulties and drifting...
Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 19th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a speedboat had capsized opposite Deal coastguard station about half a mile off shore. The life-boat Charles Dibdin...