Shortly after 4.30 P.M. on the llth March a telegram was received from St. Abbs stating that a large vessel was sinking off the Head with a fishing boat standing by her. The assembly signal for the Life-boat's crew was fired and within...
GOURDON AND JOHNSHAVEN. — Several fishing-boats which had proceeded to sea in favourable weather early in the morning of the 4th March were overtaken by gale from the S.S.E., and as the sea became very heavy considerable anxiety was felt for...
On the 15th Nov. the surf Life-boat, the Boys, assisted by a steamer, saved the schooner Mediateur, of Nantes, and her crew of 6 men, from a dangerous position near the North Star Battery, Great Yar- mouth. The vessel was damaged in the...
Our summer break at Littlehampton was a little longer than anticipated perhaps due to a reluctance to depart before there was some progress to report on the new boathouse project. It is now some two years since discussions started on the...
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Off Selsey Bill A YACHT AGROUND in the Looe Channel and needing help was reported by Solent Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 1910 on Friday September 9, 1983. Maroons were fired and at 1920 the 48ft 6in...
INJURED MAN At 2.35 p.m. on 28th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Grimsby trawler Blackburn Rovers in Bridlington Bay had an injured man on board. There was a fresh north westerly breeze with a moderate...
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 13th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that one of the Gourdon fishing fleet, Emulate, was overdue. The life-boat The Edith Clauson-Thue was launched at noon. There was a...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.10 a.m. on 26th February, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men who had arrived in Dunmore by car had informed them that a boat was firing distress signals above Creadon Head. It...
JULY 27TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A Spitfire aeroplane had beenreported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 6s. 6d..
IN the Wreck Returns presented by the Board of Trade every year to Parliament, it is recorded that, from the very nature of the circumstances, the largest number of lives saved from founderings and collisions in the seas of the British Isles...
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