Torbay, Devon.—At 6.24 on the even- ing of the 24th of September, 1955, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor boat had burnt a smoke flare half a mile north-east of Berry Head.
At 6.40 the life-boat George Shee put...
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, it was reported by the coxswain that he had heard the local fishing boat Courage calling for help on her wire-less. Ten minutes later the life-boat E.C.J.It, was...
Penlee, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. Early in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the St. Ives life-boat was out.
At 5 A.M. it was reported that signals had been seen off Clodgy Head.
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TOWING A FISHING BOAT Dungeness, Kent—At 9.30 in the morn- ing of the 8th of March, 1947, while returning from the fishing ground the life-boat's coxswain saw a fishing boat apparently in difficulties about two miles south-west from...
ENGINE-ROOM FLOODED Selsey, Sussex.—At 2.35 in the after- noon of the 20th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress between the eastern entrance to Chichester Harbour and Wittering Beach. A moderate south-westerly breeze...
Whitby, Yorkshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of Novem- ber, 1957, the crew of the fishing boat Faith Star reported on their return from fishing that the sea was breaking on the bar and that conditions were becoming...
Barrow, Lancashire. At 9.5 on the morning of the 12th of May, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing vessel was in difficulty and aground half a mile off Sandy Gap, Walney Island. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at...
Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.57 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a man had made fast in a small boat to a float of the Admiralty boom half a mile north of the life-boat...
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 14th of May, 1948, the police reported that at seven the pre- vious evening a man eighty years old had put oiit alone in the motor boat Mallard to fish, and had not been heard of since. The...
The number, Yorkshire. — At 6.45 in the evening of the 7th of July, 1948, the Donna Nook coastguard reported a yacht firing red rockets two and a half miles east of Donna Nook, and at 7 o'clock the motor life-boat Milburn, on temporary...