CAISTEE, NORFOLK.—At 4 a.m. on the 7th October, flares and rockets were seen in the direction of the Cross Sand, apparently fired from a steam vessel on the sand. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was promptly launched, and in going...
PORTRUSH.—The brigantine Sunshine, of and from St. John, N.B., laden with timber, arrived off Coleraine Bar on the 4th July and anchored, waiting for a sufficient depth of water to enable her to cross the bar. On the 10th a gale from the N.E...
St. M»ry'«, Islei of Scilly —About 9.0 in the morning, of the 7th of January, 1951, it was learned that a keeper on the Bishop Rock Lighthouse was very ill. There was a relief available. A doctor was called and on getting...
THE Institution has substantially increased the annual retaining fees which it pays to the officers of its life-boats, and others who have regular duties to perform. The coxswain's fee, which varied from £24 to £32 a year...
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SCARBOBOTTGH.—The schooner London, of Hastings, bound from Hartlepool to Eye with coal, was seen making for the harbour, with only her fore staysail set, and with a signal of distress flying, at 9 A.M. on the 12th December, during a heavy...
At 1.30 A.M. on the 10th February, during a moderate S.S.W. gale the Coastguard reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat John Wesley, that rockets had been observed in Barry Roads.
The Life-boat was launched and found the...
Hoylake, Cheshire. At 5.50 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1959, the police at Hoylake told the coxswain that two young men who had gone swimming from Hilbre Island at 4.15 had not returned to the beach. At 6.35 the life- boat Oldham IV...
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the police reported that three yachts were in difficulties off West Kirby.
It was then learnt that one of the yachts had sunk and that her crew had been...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. — At 11.15 on the morning of the 7th of September 1957, the police reported that a rowing boat with two girls and two young men on board was in diffi- culties in Colwyn Bay. The life-boat Tillie Morrison,...
Whitehills, Banffshire. At 7.30 on the morning of the 26th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was ashore one mile east of Pennan. The life-boat St. Andrew (Civil Service...