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Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.19 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the piermaster had seen some people in a yacht in the harbour waving for help.
At 12.30 the life-boat R.L.P. was...
Books
Books The Lone Ranger story – from salvage tug to super yacht by John Julian Published by Seafarer Books ISBN 0955024307 Price £19.95 hardback This is the remarkable story of a vessel’s transformation over a period of more than 30 years...
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A Small Boat (5)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - ARRANMORE, CO.
DONEGAL. At five in the afternoon three men left Burtonport in a small boat for Arranmore, but they had not arrived by nine o’clock. A strong south-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea....
Pollyanna
Five saved as stranded yacht sinks on rising tide Both of Harwich's lifeboats were involved in a service to the yacht Pollyanna last August when she grounded on the Cork Sands and eventually rolled over while a lifeboat crew member, a...
Angora, of Bangor & Trafalgar, of Cley
On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on that station, the Birmingham,...
Fishing Cobles
Several of the fishing-cobles, when returning from their fishing on the 23rd October, were overtaken by a heavy sea. Most of them succeeded in making the harbour in safety, but the last boat, which was some distance behind the others, was ex...
Pedler
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 on the evening of the 27th of June, 1955, the coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Pedler, which had a crew of two, had capsized off Primrose Valley. A fishing coble and another vacht went to her help, and at...
Kastag
Swanage, Dorset.—About 5.50 on the afternoon of the 1st of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that two people were cut off by the tide at Kimmeridge Ledge, and that a yacht was ashore there. Five minutes later the life-boat Edmund...
Fishing Cobles (2)
The wind on the 12th April suddenly increased to the strength of a gale, and the sea became very heavy, when the fishing cobles were at sea. As their return would be attended with considerable risk to'those on board, the Life-boat was...
Vesta, of Whitby
On the 23rd March, during a heavy squall, the brig Vesta, of Whitby, was seen to part her cable and to founder between the Mumbles and Swansea Pier. The life-boat, was quickly launched, and succeeded in taking from the vessel's rigging...