Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.25 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that, as the weather was freshening, anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing cobles Rosemary and Hilda II which had left the...
FEBRUARY 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.32 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the Fork Buoy.
A fresh southerly wind was blowing, with amoderate sea. It was snowing. The motor life-boat Charles...
Shortly after midnight on the 4th-oth July, flares were observed by the Coastguard on duty at Westward Ho ! He at once communicated by telephone with Apple- dore, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was sent to the place...
Shoreham, Sussex - On 22nd September, 1968, the life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched to the yacht Jean Ann. A full account of this service appears on page 557..
Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.10 a.m. on i6th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble, five miles east of Filey buoy, was at sea in worsening weather conditions. The life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted...
NOVEMBER 2ND. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 9.45 in the morning, the Blyth coastguard reported a ship ashore half a mile south of St. Mary’s Lighthouse. The sea was slight, with a light north-east wind blowing, but there was a...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.39 on the evening of the 24th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had wirelessed that another steamer had collided with the motor vessel Alf Everard, of London, off Sea Reach. At 6.55...
This copy of a Viking ship, the Hugin, came from Denmark to Broadstairs at the beginning of the summer to commemorate the landing of Hengist and Horsa. She was taken over by the Daily Mail, and on her visits to other towns made collections... - View image in PDF
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The same Life-boat was launched about 11.15 P.M., on the 9th March, inresponse to flares shown in Margate Roads by the steam launch Sterry, of Lowestoft, bound to Penzance with coal, which was found riding to her anchor in about four fathoms...