DEC. 24TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A vessel had been reported to be ashore, but she was found to be anchored off shore. - Rewards. £11 15s. 6d..
AUGUST 13TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
A Boston aeroplane had come down at sea, but her crew were rescued by a minesweeper. - Rewards, £6 15s..
APRIL 16TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A small sailing boat had been reported missing, but the people on board had beached her and come ashore. - Rewards, £8 15s..
NOVEMBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
Red flares had been reported, but no vessel in distress could be found. - Rewards, £13 15s. 6d..
FEBRUARY 20TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. A steamer had been mined east of the Tyne Piers, but she was beached and the life-boat was recalled. - Rewards , £7 15s. 6d.
SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
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Catamaran aground THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Morecambe lifeboat station was told by Helmsman Keith Willacy at 1515 on Saturday June 6, 1981, that a catamaran aground in the bay had been reported to him; her crew had not been accounted...
JUNE 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET, At 7.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the oil tanker British Inventor, of London, 7,000 tons, had been torpedoed or mined near the Shambles Lightvessel and was sinking. The weather was...
On the 4th March the sloop Hannah, of Liverpool, being driven into Ratwharf bay, and a gale coming on, hoisted signals of distress, when the Moelfre life-boat proceeded to her aid, and found the crew helpless from fatigue and long...
LITTLEHAMPTON.— The Life-boat James, Mercer and Elizabeth was launched at 10 P.M. on the 14th August, in a rough sea and a moderate to fresh gale of wind from the S., it having been reported that a vessel was making signals of...