Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.2 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties close inshore in Font-y-Gary bay. The life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris, on evaluation trials at the station...
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 8 p.m. on 16th June, 1969, information was received that a yacht was in difficulties three miles from Howth. At 8.9 the life-boat A.M.T. slipped her moorings in a strong south easterly wind and a moderate sea. It was...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 10.17 P-m- on 3oth June, 1965, the coastguard told the coxswain that they had under observation a yacht which was making no headway. It seemed to have dropped anchor in a dangerous position close to Little...
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At 11.19 a.m. on 27th August, 1967, the ship's agent at Hull informed the coxswain superintendent that there was a sick man on board the s.s. Knossos of Greece. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin, on temporary duty at the station,...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.2 on the afternoon of the 18th of January, 1958, the Foreland coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile south-south- east of Ventnor. The life-boat Eliza- beth...
During a heavy gale from S.W.
on the 22nd April the yacht Bittern, of Berwick, was observed being rapidly driven seawards. The gale was increas- ing in violence, and it was considered necessary to launch the Life-boat to...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. On the morn- ing of the 4th August, 1961, when the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was returning to her station from Brightlingsea after a service the day before, the coxswain decided to in- vestigate the position of a...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — On the night of the 6th August the yacht Mona, of Heswall, bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of three, was seen to be riding at anchor in a dangerous position about a mile out of Llandudno bay. A strong...
Poole, Dorset.—At 8.20 on the even- ing of the 7th of October, 1953, the police reported that a yacht was on the rocks at the Training Bank and had burnt flares. At 8.25 the life- boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched in a ground swell and...