YACHT AGROUND At 4.55 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported to be aground on the Pye Sands, about half a mile outside the mouth of the river. The honorary secretary then telephoned...
NOVEMBER 4TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At seven in the morning the coastguard reported a ship ashore at Rottingdean.
A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
SURVIVORS FROM RAFT LANDED Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.51 on the morning of the 17th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Scampton had picked up a man and a woman from a raft about 40 miles...
37' Oakley lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane, back in Padstow after her service of December 7. (I.
to r.) Second Coxswain Trevor England, Dl (SW) Lt.-Cdr. R. S. Portclunouth, Coxswain Anthony Warnock and Honorary... - View image in PDF
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Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the afternoon of the 17th of March, 1949, parts of wireless messages were picked up at the life-boat station.
They came from tugs which appeared to be in difficulties with a vessel in tow...
On the morning of the 23rd September a heavy gale sprang up, accompanied by a very rough sea. About 52 of the herring-boats were then out at sea, but several of these landed. Others, however, held on by their nets, hoping that the gale would...
ON another page we record one of the most fearful catastrophes that has ever happened on the seas. The burning of the emigrant ship Austria, with 528 persons on board, of whom no less than 471 were drowned, suffocated, or burned to death.<...
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About midday on the 12th May the weather began to look boisterous with a growing sea, and shortly before three of the Spittal cobles had sailed for Goswick Bay. The Honorary Secretary having been apprised of this, he directed the Coxswain of...
COMBINED OPERATIONS FOR CLIFF ACCIDENT St. Ives, Cornwall. At 4.48 p.m. on Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the St. Ives coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Hellesveor and that a rescue team had...
On the 1st of April the barque Oberon, of Liverpool, ran ashore on the Causeway Bank in Cardigan Bay. She was seen from Portmadoc, and a large boat was also observed at a great distance from the land, apparently full of people. The Portmadoc...