On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...
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On the evening of the 31st December, 1931, prolonged blasts on a steamer's whistle were heard. There was fog and it was assumed that a vessel had run aground, either on the Smethwick Sands or under the South Cliffs. The No. 2 Pulling and...
Skegness, Lines. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that red flares had been seen coming from a fishing boat off Ingoldmells Point. At 4.55 the life-boat The Cuttle was launched in a rough...
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 20th of July, 1948, the Portpatrick Radio Station telephoned that the Icelandic steam- trawler Baldur, on passage from Fleet- wood to Iceland, was approaching Campbeltown and...
COXSWAIN Dermot Walsh of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat has been awarded a silver medal and six of the crew members accorded the Institution's thanks on vellum, for courageous rescue operations oif the west coast of Ireland.
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At 12.45 A.M.
on the 16th January, during an ex- ceedingly thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and a message was received stating that a vessel was ashore to the north of the town. The Honorary Secretary of the...
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Whitstable's Atlantic capsizes on service to f[shing^)gats The dangers facing lifeboat crews were cgraphically illustrated at Whitstable on Sunday 3 January 1999 when the station's Atlantic was capsized by a breaking sea soon after...
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Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—1st June, 1939. A sailing boat had capsized off Worthing, but the man on board was rescued by another boat.—Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..