On the morn- ing of the 12th July the schooner Alert, of Falmouth, whilst working down Channel, bound for Truro with coal, was seen to miss stays, and before the crew could wear ship she struck on Taylor's Bank. The Life-boat John and...
FRENCH FISHING BOAT DRIFTING FOR TWO DAYS Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.10 in the morning of the 18th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that distress signals were being made seventeen miles south- east of Weymouth, and that Niton Radio Station...
llfracombe - South Division More vie A/s of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
llfracombe. on the north Devon coast, is seen from the west in this view, taken towards high water. The Inner Harbour dries completely at low...
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NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set her course to Torbay to land her second engineer...
Penlee, Cornwall. At 10 a.m. on nth November, 1965, the St. Just coastguard told the coxswain that a ship had reported seeing mattresses in the sea five miles south-east of Tater Du lighthouse. The mattresses were possibly from the missing...
On the 12th August, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.S.W., with a rough sea, a telegram was received from the coastguard at Port Cranstal, about a mile south of the Point of Ayre, stating that a vessel was ashore there and that...
PADSTOW, CORNWALL. — On the 7th April, a strong gale from N.W. was experienced, accompanied by a heavy sea, and by rain squalls at intervals. At about 3.50 P.M., information having been received by means of the telephone, that a vessel was...
IN COLLISION Dungeness, Kent. At 2.52 a.m. on 4th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the British vessel Cape Nelson had been in collision with the German motor vessel Ferdinand Retzlaff of Bremen, seven miles...
In the five years, eight months and six days of war, from September 3rd., 1939, to May 8th., 1945, the life-boats of the Institution were launched to the help of ships and aeroplanes in distress 3760 times and rescued from them 6376 lives....
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On the 10th August, while the Life-boat Theodore Price was out for practice, in a strong breeze and choppy sea, two pleasure rowing boats were seen driving out to sea. There were three women I and one man in one...