On the morning of the 16th March the same large Life-boat went off, in reply to signals of distress shown by the ketch Equestrian, of Port Gordon, and found that she had five feet of water in her. It was blowing heavily at the time from the...
During a light S.E. breeze with a heavy ground swell four fishing cobles belonging to Whitby were seen making for Runswick.
As the landing at Runswick was con- sidered to be very dangerous the Cox- swain of the Life-boat...
A COLLECTOR was taking the " Boat" round among a group of working men, but nothing was forthcoming in the shape of contributions except a crop of caustic remarks reflecting upon the work of the Institution in general and the...
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A silver plated replica of Chapman Light made by Morris Johnson was presented to Her Majesty The Queen in June by Convey Island branch; for 106 years the light marked Chapman Sands, known as 'the last hazard' to ships returning to... - View image in PDF
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5 November 2011: Whitby’s D class lifeboat OEM Stone III sped to the cliffs west of Whitby Harbour, where two people cut off by the tide had tried to climb to safety and got stuck. A lifeboat crew member went...
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At about 10 P.M. on the 13th November the coxswain saw that the Middle Gas Float had broken from its mooring and was drifting out of the Humber, be- coming a danger to navigation. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, and the...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.44 early on the morning of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in distress off Tollesbury pier in the River Blackwater, and that people were shouting for...
Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
Margate, Kent.—The S.S. Generton, of Newcastle, a vessel of nearly 5,000 tons bound from South Africa to London was ashore -on the Girdler Sands, twelve miles to the north-west of Margate. Tugs had tried several times to refloat her, but by...
A severe gale having suddenly sprung up on the morning of the 31st October, all the fishing-cobles at once hastened back to port, but at 8.20 the Scarborough Coast- guard reported by telephone that a motor fishing-boat belonging to Scar-...