Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9.30 in the morning of the 29th of November, 1947, the Runswick life-boat station telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Venus, of Whitby, had broken down oft Staithes and needed help. She was reported to be...
BOAT WITHOUT LIGHTS OR SIGNALS Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At 10.30 on the night of the 25th of April, 1947, information was received from the owner of a fleet of sand-boats that he was anxious about the safety of one of his smaller boats, the...
Again, on that day, during a gale from the W.N.W., the barque Cassandra, of Liverpool, was wrecked in Compton Bay, near this Life- boat Station, while on a voyage to the Thames from Madras. The Life-boat George and Anne was taken to the Bay,...
Margate, Kent. At 2.22 on the after- noon of the 9th October, 1961, thecoastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a rowing boat were being blown out to sea a mile and a half off Epple Bay and were waving a towel attached to...
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Shortly after 9.30 at night the Paignton police reported a boat on fire off Roundham Head. The weather was calm, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat George Shee was launched at 9.50...
—When returning home, laden, from the Norwegian fishing grounds, the Aberdeen trawler Abergeldie stranded on the south end of Goswick Sands on 22nd March. Information of her plight was received- from the Coastguard and the Motor Life-boat...
The Life-boat B. Wood, stationed at this place, went out on the 6th Feb., to rescue the crew and some fishermen who were on board the Nor- wegian ship Martha, which had stranded three days previously off Hornsea. The men were engaged...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.53 on the morning of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a yacht was aground near the East Barrow beacon, although no distress signals had been seen. After a review of the...
Large flares were seen in the direction of Middle Scroby Sand at 4 a.m. on the 5th December. The No. 1 Lifeboat Covent Garden was at once launched, proceeded to the sand, and found the schooner Annie, of Wick, bound from London for Peterhead...