Famous Shipwrecks.
" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...
Category: Articles
A PRIVATE AEROPLANE CRASHES St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.15 on the night of the 15th of August, 1947, a resident telephoned that her husband had taken off in his aeroplane, with the life-boat's assistant motor mechanic as a...
Wicklow.—At 5.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1948, the lightkeeper at Wicklow Head reported that a boy had fallen from the nearby cliffs into the sea, and the motor life-boat Lady Kylsant was launched at 5.59. A light easterly breeze...
Newhaven, Sussex - At 6.15 p.m. on 8th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that one boat had capsized and another was in difficulties off Peace- haven. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 6.30 in a light south-easterly...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 2.38 a.m. on 5th July. 1966, it was reported that a small boat with a crew of four had capsized in the Solent. Two men had been rescued and it was thought the other two were near the Norris buoy. The life-boat...
Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Clac- ton-on-Sea, Essex. — At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard reported that a message had been received from the North Foreland radio station that the motor...
Sheringham, Norfolk. — About six o'clock on the morning of the 29th of June, 1953, six local fishing boats put to sea in fair weather, but a swell developed and it became misty. At ten o'clock a man told the life-boat honorary...
Dover, Kent.—At 5.35 on the after- noon of the 26th of July, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor cruiser Hareth had broken down and had anchored off St.
Margaret's Bay with seven people on board....
BABY WENT TOO Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.20 p.m. on ist August, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser which lay at anchor in Sand bay needed the life-boat's assistance.
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TOW FOR YACHT TO HARBOUR Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 19th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from a small yacht off Whinnyfold, Cruden Bay. There was a light...