A telephone mes- sage from the Kentish Knock Light Vessel, in the early morning of the 7th April, reported the stranding of the schooner Notre Dame de Toutes Aides, of Nantes, on the sands. The Margate Life-boat attempted to launch, but the...
Crew of two survive yacht fire and explosionTwo people and their dog had a very lucky escape last October when a fire and explosion ripped through their 27ft yacht.
Whitstable's Atlantic 21 was searching within 100...
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At half past ten on the morning of the llth of February, 1950, the coastguard tele- phoned that a coble and a motor boat with a lighter laden with coal in tow, were in difficulties off the Tyne Harbour entrance....
CREW FOUND LATER At 2 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the skipper of the Yarmouth to Lymington ferry told the honorary secretary that he had seen a capsized dinghy about one mile west of Lymington river. There was a strong south-westerly breeze...
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the afternoon of the 1st July, 1961, the life- boat Tynesider was launched to take out members of the Tynemouth and South Shields ladies' life-boat guilds.
After returning from the trip she...
BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged,...
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MAY 25TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. At 6.34 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the R.A.F. command at Manston had reported an aeroplane down in the sea approximately five miles from Dunkirk, and that the naval authorities...
AT 8.15 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station was told that a swimmer was in difficulties on the Southport side of the River Ribble. A fresh north-westerly gale was blowing,...
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Portrush, Co. Antrim-.—On the llth of July, 1951, H.M.S. St. Kitts was visiting Portrush. Two ratings went ashore for stores; but sudden bad weather prevented them going aboard again with them. The St. Kitts' Com- manding Officer...
During the past summer the coasts of England, Scotland and Wales, have been crowded with visitors from all parts of the United Kingdom, in a great measure owing to the pestilential condition of some parts of the Continent. We heard on all...
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