LlZARD AND CADGWITH. The S.S. Suffolk, of London, 2,900 tons, bound from Baltimore for London, with a cargo of flour, tobacco, &c., and having a large number of cattle on board, struck the rocks at the Lizard Head during a dense fog at 4...
SKIPPER OF GENESIS ENIGMA | FORMER CREW
MEMBER AT RNLI FLAMBOROUGH
‘ So grateful they were there’
It was a rough tow back towards Bridlington Harbour and when we were about an hour away, I... - View image in PDF
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PENLEE | 29 JUNE
Penlee’s crew were in the throes of their Sunday morning training session when they received the call for help.
Provident, a 1920s former Brixham trawler with 13 people onboard, had...
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JUST before 10 o'clock on the night of the 18th January last, the Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Coxswain received a telephone message from the Coast- guard that a vessel was ashore on St-otstown Head, three-and-a-quarter miles north of...
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THERE is a time-honoured saying that " it is a long lane that has no turning," and the old saw may not inappropriately be applied at the present time to the Life-boat Saturday Fund. For the last three years the Life-boat Saturday...
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25th June.
Anxiety was felt for two men in a small boat, but they made land safely.— Rewards, £8 15s..
15th November. The life-boat was called out to escort two fishing boats into Stone- haven, but she was not wanted.—• Rewards, £17 15s..
Weymouth, Dorset.—3rd April. French trawlers which were signalling to one another were thought to be burning flares for help.—Rewards, £8 15s..
6th Septem- ber. Fireworks in celebration of the birth of a son and heir to Countess Cawdor at Cawdor Castle, mistaken for distress signals.—Rewards, £8 15s..