NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...
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On the 14th November, the smack Mary Elizabeth, of Padstow, was observed to be fast drifting towards the rocky shore, west of Bude- haven, in a dismasted and unmanageable state. A high surf was setting into the entrance of Budehaven at the...
Inshore rescue hovercraft The Hurley Flyer 'Recently, when a nine-year-old girl in a dinghy and a man were in trouble, the lifeboat picked them up and the hovercraft flew the casualties right across the beach up the slipway to the... - View image in PDF
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The sailing yacht Fiona, of Glasgow, when | out cruising near Coquet Island on the llth May, missed stays and stranded on the ' Coquet Steel.' A strong W. gale was blowing and the Life-boat Mary Andrew was launched to assist her. The...
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 11.35 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secietary that the motor vessel Crescence of Rochester was aground off the old pier buoy in St. Ives Bay. At 11.42 the life-boat...
TENBY.—On the morning of the 8th February, during a heavy westerly gale, the ketch Brothers lying in Caldy Roads, parted her chain. She then made sail, and stood across the bay, when her mainboom was carried away, which disabled her, and...
Moelfre, Anglesey. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 18th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing boat was drifting towards Dulas west of Moelfre.
A watch was kept on the sailing...
POBTHOUSTOCK, COXSWAIN,.—At midnight on the 13th April, during a strong breeze from the N.E., the weather at the same time being hazy, it was reported that a large steamer had struck on the Manacles Boots. The Mary Ann Storey Life-boat...
At 4 A.M., on the 13th September, flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. The same Life-boat was launched, and proceeded over the sands through the breakers, in the direction in which the lights had been last seen; but no...
About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January the wind increased and the weather became very bad, which caused considerable anxiety for the safety of some of the cobles which had left for the fishing grounds earlier in the morning....