Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 21st of September, 1953, the Ryde police rang up to say that a man was missing in a dinghy between No Man's Fort and Horse Sand Fort. At 8.51 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched....
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...
Medallists of 1975: (I. to r., back row first) Coxswain Frank Bloom, Walton and Frinton; Helmsman Michael Coates, Whitby; Coxswain John Petit and Crew Member John Robilliard, St Peter Port: Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins,... - View image in PDF
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Two fish- ing-boats named the Thistle and Mizpah were overtaken when at sea on the 3rd May by a strong gale from S.S.E.
As considerable anxiety was felt for their safety the No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched....
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL. — At about 5.10 P.M., on the 17th June, the Coastguard reported that a vessel about four miles N. of Towan Head was in need of assistance. A strong breeze from N. was then blowing, the sea was moderate and the weather...
On the morning of the 25th August, during a S.S.W. gale and heavy sea, the barque Strathden, of Dundee, was seen to go ashore on the north-west end of the Middle Cross Sand. A yawl immediately proceeded to her assistance, and the master...
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.30 in the morning of the 3rd of August, 1949, the yacht Falcon broke from her moorings in Piel Harbour. A north-westerly gale and the ebbing tide carried her away to sea. It was not known if anyone was on board, and...
At midnight on the 13th, in reply to signals from the Gull Lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, in a strong breeze at W.S.W., and proceeded under sail to the assistance of the barque Fleetwing, of Newcastle, bound...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—On the 15th of August, 1949, an officer of the Irish Army and a priest, who were on holiday, went out from Drogheda in a motor boat. About four in the after- noon the engine broke down, the boat anchored, and the...
7.40 A.M. on the 21st November the Coastguard reported that a ketch was ashore on the break- water at the entrance to the harbour.
A strong E. gale was blowing at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life- boat Harmar was ...