Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.56 in the morning, on the 19th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground at North Cheek, Robin Hoods Bay. At 6.10 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
The...
JULY 30TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 5.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a sailing yacht making heavy weather. Thirty-five minutes later they reported that she appeared to be showing a distress signal. A...
MARCH 26TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 11.15 in the morning Croyde coastguard reported to Appledore that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea. The same information was given to Ilfracombe by the resident naval officer. The...
At about 1 a.m. on the 9th April, the Coastguard reported that rockets were being fired from the Tongue Light- Vessel ; the crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were thereupon summoned and the boat was as soon as possible launched. The...
ABILITY to aid the shipwrecked is a fairly accurate standard by which to measure a country's civilization. In the South Sea Islands, or Somali Laud, the un- fortunate castaway may struggle through the breakers, only to be clubbed on...
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PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. On the 18th January fearful weather was experienced here, and the Life-boat George Moore was twice launched to the assistance of the crews of distressed vessels.
The wind was blowing a very heavy...
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
Torbay, Devon. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 15th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman living near Thatcher Rock, Torquay, had seen a motor boat capsize. Her crew of three were reported to be...
Margate, Kent. — At 12.4 in the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that three men were waving for help in a broken down motor boat near the rocks at Birchington. Two minutes later the life-boat North Foreland,...