During a terrific gale of wind, on the night of the 8th of January, the look-out-man at Stonehouse Point observed signals of distress from Mount Batten. The Prince Consort life- boat was at once launched, and proceeded to the bay. Owing to...
South East Division Trawler saved in violent storm THROUGHOUT THURSDAY DECEMBER 26, 1985, Boxing Day, the weather on the east Kent coast had been rapidly deteriorating; by late afternoon winds from the north east were reaching strong gale...
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CLIFF FALL At 7.32 p.m. on 24th April, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that two boys had fallen over the cliff at Whitewaterbrook.
The life-boat A.M.T. was launched at 7.42 in a light westerly wind and a smooth...
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 8.15 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1953, it was reported that the local fishing boat Good Fellowship was bound for North Sunderland from Blyth, with a crew of four, and was then east of Newton....
Cut off by tide INFORMATION THAT A MAN had been reported cut off by the tide below the cliffs in the vicinity of the Coastguard lookout was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station at 1630 on Sunday, June 5. The assembly...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 8th of April, 1947, the fishing fleet put to sea at about 6.0 in the morning, but by nine o'clock a gale was blowing from the east, and a heavy sea was making the harbour entrance dangerous. As the tide was too...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, a message was received from Valentia radio that the Dutch motor vessel Stientje Mensinga had picked up the small yacht Julia ten miles north-east...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the night of the 15th of November, 1949, during a fog, the coastguard reported that two ships had been in collision off Thames Haven. As a result, four men were adrift in a ship's boat, others...
Swanage, Dorset - At 7.53 p.m. on 16th May, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a girl was injured on the cliff half a mile west of Anvil point. The lifeboat R.L.P. was launched at 8.5. It was three hours after...
Torbay, Devon. At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a man had fallen down to the foot of the cliffs at Sharkham Point. At 12.45 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left...