AT 4.58 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1954, the Hartland coastguard rang up the Clovelly life-boat station with the news that the motor ketch Progress, of Bideford, was in distress under the lee of Lundy Island. The trawler Hosanna...
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Moelfre, Anglesey. •—• During the morning of the 7th September a man and a woman put off from Benllech in a small sailing boat. A strong squall sprang up from the south-west, and the sea became rough. The man and woman lowered the sails, but...
At 4.55 p.m. on 24th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the m.v. Egton was drifting ashore at North Cheek, Robin Hood Bay.
The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 5.10 in a light...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1953, the motor fishing boat Vigilant, which had been blown ashore from her moor- ings in a gale, was refloated and towed into the River Tees by two men in a small dinghy...
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.40 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Francois Tixier, of Dunkirk, bound from Goole for Rouen with a cargo of coal, was flying distress signals four miles north by...
FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
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On a bright day in June, two sunbathers on a rock ledge at Mawgan Forth, Cornwall, were blissfully unaware that the tide was coming in and that they would soon be in dangerAs part of their daily routine, Mawgan Porth RNLI lifeguards check...
SUNDEBLAND.—Flares were seen in the direction of Hendon Beach at 5.30 P.M. on the 12th November. The John Fouhton Life-boat was launched, proceeded to the spot, and found that the brig Tagus, of Aberdeen, bound from that port to Sunderland...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 1.55 in the morning of the 18th of February, 1949, the Kyle coastguard reported that the new motor fishing boat Alliance, of Inverness, was ashore five miles to the south-east of Calve Island in the Sound of Mull...