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A Raft (1)

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

APRIL 30TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.

A child had drifted away from Girvan on a raft, but was drowned before help could arrive. - Rewards, £4 10s. 6d..

Glance and Glide (1)

Date: August 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 161

BROADSTAIRS AND RAMSGATE. — The brigantines Glance and Glide, of Ramsgate, both bound for Ramsgate from the north with coal, came into collision off the North Foreland in a strong E.N.E. gale, snow squalls, and a heavy sea on the morning of...

The Humber Lightvessel (1)

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

NOVEMBER  16TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 11.30 in the morning the Mablethorpe coastguard asked the life-boat to put out to the Humber Lightvessel and take an injured man from it to Grimsby. A moderate north-north-east breeze was...

A Drifter (1)

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

DECEMBER 10TH. - MOELFRE ANGLESEY. An unknown drifter had struck a mine, but the life-boat found only wreckage. - Rewards, £7 1s..

A Rowing Boat (1)

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

APRIL 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A rowing boat had been in difficulties, but she was towed to harbour by a motor boat.- Rewards, £3 16s..

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

NOVEMBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. The motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 12.35 in the afternoon in a strong north-north-west wind, with a rough sea, to the help of the local fishing boats. As most of the regular members of the crew...

An American Aeroplane (1)

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JUNE 12TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. An American aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but she was completely wrecked and the pilot killed. - Rewards, £9.

Fishing Smacks (1)

Date: November 1877

Volume: 10

Issue: 106

SHERINGHAM.— On the 21st May the Life-boat Duncan was launched to assist several fishing-smacks which, having beencaught out at sea by sudden bad weather from the N.E., were in danger of being swamped while beaching..

Fishing Boats (1)

Date: August 1907

Volume: 20

Issue: 225

Seven of the fishing-boats belonging to Holy Island were at sea fishing on the 22nd January when the S.E. wind in- creased to a gale, and the sea became very heavy. At 8.30 A.M. the Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, manned by a scratch...

Fishing Cobles (1)

Date: November 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 238

On the morning of the 9th February the Cox- swain of the Life-boat Queensbury went off in his coble, intending to go to his crab-pots. When well outside the break- water he found the sea very heavy and increasing. Knowing that several...