A STRONG south-westerly gale was blowing on the Sussex coast on the morning of Sunday, the 8th of August. The sea was very rough and there was a heavy swell.
Just after half past eight the coastguard at Shoreham Harbour saw...
Category: Services
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 8.30 on the evening of the 3rd of April, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that three pedigree cows had fallen over a cliff at Manorbier. Two of the cows were in a position which was inaccessible from...
Salcombe, Devon. At 2.50 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy was missing at Burgh Island and that it was thought he had fa!!en over a cliff. A request was made for the help...
funnel (or the exhausts, mast only for signalling and the wireless aerial, and two 40 h.p. Diesel engines. Stationed at Gorleston. - View image in PDF
Cost, £9,000.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LADY HICKS. - View image in PDF
Speaking at the opening ceremony. (Behind Lady Hicks is Mrs Astley Roberts, President of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
10th December.
Lights were seen at sea, but no vessel was found in distress.—Rewards, £14 9*. 6d..
The Humber, Yorkshire.—30th May.
A motor boat had run aground at Cowden, but the crew got ashore.—- Permanent paid crew ; Rewards, 15s..
Weymouth, Dorset. — 4 th August.
Rockets had been fired at sea, but they ceased and a vessel was seen going on her way.—Rewards, £6 13s..
Fowey, Cornwall.—22nd September.
Distress signals had been reported at Dodman Point, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 7.20 on the evening of 7th of June. 1956, it was reported that two people had gone out in the afternoon in their motor boat to look at their lobster pots and had not returned. The life- boat H. F. Bailey put...