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FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Newcastle, Co. Down. — At 9.15 in the morning of the 19th of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was drifting off Cranfield. Shortly afterwards they reported her in distress, and at 9.50 the life-boat L.P. and St.
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Hastings, Sussex.—At 2.3 on the after- noon of the 4th of August, 1953, the Fairlight coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat was flying a flag, which appeared to be a distress signal, three quarters of a mile off...
Torbay, Devon.—At 2.42 early on the morning of the 6th of December, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help had been heard off Freshwater Quarry. At 3.10 the life- boat George Shee put to sea. There was a slight...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the coastguard inspector at Rattray asked if the life- boat would launch to stand by the yacht Silver Cloud, of London, which had a crew of...
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1957, the Wallasey police telephoned to say a yacht was in difficulties in the Rock Channel opposite the coastguard look-out post. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett put...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.30 on the night of the 24th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a boat was flashing an S O S signal north- west-by-west of the Barrow Deep lightvessel. At 8.58 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...