On the evening of the 8th July, Coxswain Grunnill received a telephone message from the Coastguard stating that a vessel was flying a signal of distress. He launched the Life-boat Samuel Lewis, and on arrival found the vessel was the ketch...
Soon after midday on the 5th August information reached the Coxs-wain of the Life-boat Richard Cresswell that a man was adrift I in the river in a small boat with only I one oar. There was a strong offshore breeze at the time, and the boat...
In response to guns from the East Goodwin Light- vessel indicating a vessel was on that part of the sands, the Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at 8.30 A.M. on the 10th March. A passing steamer kindly towed the Life-boat part of the way...
The steamer Langton Grange, of London, a vessel of upwards of nine thousand tons register, belonging to the Houlder Line, stranded during a dense fog on the 5th August on the North Bishop Rocks.
Her signals of distress were...
During fine weather on 17th February the Life- boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was called out to the assistance of a vessel making signals of distress. On arrival she found the vessel was on the sands.
She proved to be a...
On the 14th January the Foreland coast watcher telephoned that a fore- and aft schooner, about three miles S.W.
of the look-out, was drifting towards Hayling Island. A whole W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea,...
THE life-boat station at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, took part in a very interesting event during July—the welcome which was given to men and women from Fraserburgh living in Canada, the United States, South Africa and various places of...
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ON 27th October, when the motor life-boat from Pwllheli was out on practice in half a gale, with a heavy sea running, she was hailed by the steamer Marjorie, of Liverpool, anchored in St. Tudwal's Roads. The Marjorie was on her way to...
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On the night of 9th March the Coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was believed to be on the rocks near the Carr Lightship, and on fire. The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat John and Sarah Hatfield was launched at 11 P.M. in a slight W.N.W...
At 10.30 P.M.
on the 13th August the Coxswain received a message that a small yacht with two men on board was' in distress in the bay. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing with a rough sea and heavy...