SCOTLAND Broughty Ferry, Angus - At 8.45 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, a small yacht wasseen to capsize near the Craig buoy. At this time another three yachts were also capsized by a sudden squall. The yacht club rescue boat while attempting to...
Category: Services
AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.
E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.
This stated that the...
Category: Services
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1959, the police at Holy well told the coxswain that two young men were missing after a canoe had capsized off Greenfields. At 3.10 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched in...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.54 on the morning of the 9th of July, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Brooklands Jaywick and that her crew were clinging to the keel. The life- boat Sir Godfrey...
Search through surf BLYTH LIFEBOAT, the 46' 9" Watson Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) had launched on exercise on Monday, August 8, and was heading for the harbour mouth when, at 1007, a call was received from HM Coastguard...
Two men on sandbank IT WAS at about 7.45 p.m. on August 4, 1973, that Mr J. R. Stephen, a Trinity House pilot, was informed by Mr Colin Bull that Mr Bull's brother and another man were adrift in a 7' dinghy off the oil jetty of...
During a whole N.N.W. gale with terrific squalls signals of distress were seen from a vessel at anchor in Torbay. The crew were summoned at once and the Life- boat Betsey Newbon launched. Owing to the gale blowing right on shore some...
3rd September.
Searched for a coble reported to be overdue, but which was in harbour.
—Rewards, £5 15s. Qd..
17th March. A barge drove into the harbour and stranded, but her crew got safely ashore. -Rewards, £8 5s..
30th Septem- ber. A barge had been reported a- ground, but her crew were taken off by a passing vessel.—Rewards, £15 9s..