Ramsgate, Kent.—At 7.43 on the morn- ing of the 16th of May, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the yacht Aquila had gone ashore at West Ray Point. At 7.52 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea. There was a moderate sea, and a...
Three savedjrprn cliffsjn joint rescue effort Lifeboats, a helicopter and a cliff rescue team were called in to save three people who were trapped on steep, slippery cliffs near Newquay in Cornwall on 26 March...
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 23rd October, 1961, Anglesey radio station informed the honorary secretary that the cargo on board the motor vessel Eemshorn of Delfzijl had shifted and that the vessel was listing...
A. severe gale from the S. with, a very heavy sea was experienced on the 13th October. At about 7 P.M. signals of distress were observed in the direction of the Scroby Sand. No steam-tug was available, and, in the opinion of many of those...
Once an RNLI supporter, always a RNLI supporter! When Mrs J. B. Wilson, who had worked within the ranks of Colwyn Bay branch since 1965, settled with her family in Hong Kong she asked HQ if she could start a branch there. With the dedicated...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 12.45 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1952, the Clacton coastguard saw a man in difficulties in the sea.
He was one of a party of four men in a rowing boat. An oar had been lost...
PILOT VESSEL AND TANKER IN COLLISION Humber, Yorkshire. At 5.50 on the morning of the 12th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the pilot vessel /. H.
Fisher and the tanker Esso Glasgow...
Breezy conditions lead to six calls in one day for Plymouth's Arun Plymouth's Arun class lifeboat City of Plymouth was kept extremely busy on 9 August 1994 when she received no less than six calls - launching first at 0048 and...
The steamer Bluff, of Durban, bound from Grimsby to South Africa, where she was intended for the fishing trade, stranded on the Cross R'idge, in hazy weather, on the 5th March, and at 5.50 the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched to...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...