On the 26th November the Life-boat Reigate put off from this station and saved 8 persons which vessel had been driven into the ...
On the 8th January one of the crew of the ketch Leader, of Bideford, went mad whilst the vessel was lying at anchor in St. Tudwells roads. The master of the ketch, having locked the man in his cabin, came ashore for assistance, but the man...
BERWICK - on - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—On Sunday morning the 1st June, while a north-easterly gale was raging, accompanied by a heavy sea, the coastguard look-out man observed a barque, about six miles off, flying signals...
Acting coxswain: they mav look the part but none of these men have ever taken a lifeboat to sea. They are, in fact, some of the cast from the recent BBC television plav 'Run for the Lifeboat', about a fictional lifeboat community in... - View image in PDF
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AUGUST 31ST. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
At 5.40 in the afternoon the commanding officer of a local army unit reported that one of his officers, and a bombardier, had gone out for a sail in a dinghy, but appeared to be in...
OCTOBER 12TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.39 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea 3 1/2 miles S.W. of Towan Head, and the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at...
telephonic message was received from the Coast- guard at Wick, stating that four fishing yawls were in distress in Wick Bay and making their way north. The sea j at the time was very heavy and the j weather was cold and hazy. ...
On the night of the 3rd November, the smack Adventure, of Harwich, ran ashore on the North Sand, near Yarmouth. The Institution's smaller life- boat at that place was quickly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in taking off her...
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At 12.80 A.M. on the 13th December, signals of distress having been shown by the brig Janet, of Peterhead, which had stranded about three hundred yards N. of Bing Head, the Life-boat Robert and Susan was launched...
KESSINGLAND.—The brigantine Alberta, of and for Whitstable, from Sunderland, coal laden, stranded on the south end of the Newcome Sand in a strong wind from S.W. by S., thick weather and a heavy sea on the night of the 23rd February. Her...