FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Capsized dinghy A SAILING DINGHY which had capsized against Brighton eastern marina breakwater was reported by the marina security to the deputy launching authority of Brighton lifeboat station at 1758 on Sunday June 19. The station's...
FENIT (TRALEE BAY), Co. K«BBY.—The Life-boat John Willmot was launched at 1 P.M. on the 19th April and proceeded to the fishing steamer Salamander which had stranded on a dangerous reef of rocks in Brandon Bay in a dense...
Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
At midnight on the 13th November, it then blowing a hard gale from W.S.W., signals indicating that a vessel was in distress were exhibited from the Gull Lightship, and the North Deal Life- boat Van Kook launched forthwith. She proceeded...
MARCH 6TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 8.20 A.M. the coastguard reported a message from the S.S. High Wear that she was coming in with her engine-room flooded, that she was making water, and that a pilot should be ready. A few...
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 5.59 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London, of over 7,000 tons, bound to Middlesbrough from Tangiers, was aground on the Goodwin Sands south...
Walmer, Kent.—At 11.5 on the night of the 15th of October, 1955, the Ramsgaie life-boat put off to search for a ten-feet dinghy which had been missing from Broadstairs, with one man on board, since four o'clock. She searched widely in...
Cromer's famous son Henry Blogg is the most decorated RNLI crew member of all time. What kind of man was this lifeboating legend, and what did he do to earn such accolades? Henry Blogg's time as a crew member and coxswain was an...
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JANUARY 16TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1.51 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was flying a distress signal south of Palling Look-out. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...