Fleetwood, Lancashire. — At 6.30 in the evening of the 7th of August, 1949, the harbour authorities reported a yacht on the Lighthouse Bank, one and three-quarter miles north of the life- boat station, and at 7.25 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—18th January. A steamer had stranded, but the crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus. — Rewards, £27 12s..
Runswick, Yorkshire.—Early in the morning of the 18th February six Staithes fishing cobles put off to the fishing grounds. The' weather was then fine, but there was a strong swell running. The southerly wind rose from a strong breeze to...
Cloughey, Co. Down. — During the night of the 2nd June a small yacht was seen to be in difficulties off North Rock, and the motor life-boat William Maynard was launched at 11.5 P.M. There was no wind, and the sea was...
Aberdeen.—Early on the morning of the 13th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at or near Portlethen. A gentle southerlybreeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and thick fog. The reserve motor life-boat J. & W., which...
EIGHT new motor life-boats have been named during the present year.
Accounts of these ceremonies will appear in the next issue of The Life-boat..
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Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of February, 1955, the trawler Therese Emile Yuon, of Concarneau, France, whose engine had broken down, was seen to break adrift from a Howth fishing boat, which was towing her towards...
Workington, Cumberland.—At mid- night on the 23rd of May, 1956, the dock gate foreman rang up to say that a small vessel was sending up red flares opposite the pier-head. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out at 12.15 early on...
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morn- ing of the 24th of February, 1950, six local cobles were fishing off Burniston when the wind increased to a fresh breeze from the east-south-east, accom- panied by snow showers. A rough sea rose. As the...
Ramsgale, Kent. — At 6.39 in the evening, on the 14th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat was making heavy weather half a mile off Dumpton Gap. At 6.45 the life- boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was...