Walton and Frinlon, Essex.—Early on the afternoon of the 19th April, 1938, the motor life-boat E.M.E.D., just before entering the Come estuary on passage to Rowhedge, for her annual overhaul, saw a barge in difficulties about a mile and a...
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Dutch coaster A DUTCH COASTER Diana V, in distress 101° 74 miles from Spurn Head, was reported to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1400 on December 30, 1978; her cargo of maize had...
CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...
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APRIL 1ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 1.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local fishing coble Fisher Lass was overdue. There was a dense fog, and a heavy swell was breaking on the shore. The coble would be in danger...
Plymouth, Devon.—At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1957, a message was received that a vessel had broken down a mile and a half south of the breakwater. At 3.36 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Romse put out....
Launches 64. Lives rescued 62.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between...
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COXSWAIN DOUGLAS GRANT, of Selsey, and Coxswain Henry West, of Sheringham, have become the first two members of life-boat crews to receive gifts from the James Michael Bower Endowment Fund.
This fund was established in 1955...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 2.59 in the afternoon, on the 23rd of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that H.M. Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht apparently in diffi- culties and dragging her anchor off Colne Point. At 3.0 the...