Campbeltown, Argyllshire. -— 8th March, 1938. A vessel had been reported ashore at Dunaverty Point, but she refloated and the life-boat was recalled by wireless from Portpatrick.— Rewards, £13 11*. 6d..
Dungeness, Kent.—A fisherman reported to the coxswain at 11.45 A.M.
on the 10th August that a yacht had been dismasted a mile south of Dungeness.
She was the Bluebird, bound for Portsmouth from Dover, with...
22nd March. A steamer was reported to be aground, but she was found at anchor very close to a shoal.—Rewards, £28 19*..
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 28th of September.
1956, the Polruan coastguard tele- phoned that a red flare had been seen half a mile west of Polperro. At 4.50 the life-boat Deneys lieitz put...
A photograph taken by Mr. L. H. Shelvey, honorary secretary at Walmer, from the life-boat as she was returning from the Goodwin Sands. - View image in PDF
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1956.
the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message from the Wick radio station that the fishing boat Amber Queen, which had a crew...
Fowey, Cornwall.—16th November, 1938. A fishing boat had gone ashore at Mevagissey, but the crew were rescued by another boat and from the shore.—Rewards, £13 2*. 6d..
Buckie, Banffshire. — 19th January, 1939. A motor boat had gone ashore at Lossiemouth, but her crew were able to scramble over the rocks to safety.— Rewards, £10 6s. 3d!..
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 8.14 p.m.
on 13th August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties one and a half miles from the look-out.
The life-boat Susan Ashley...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.2 on the morning of the 28th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sick man on board the tanker Lonn of Bergen needed medical attention immediately.
The...