ON 25th October last, the Motor Life- boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough,...
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Torbay, Devon. At 8.5 on the evening of the 3rd of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was trapped on the side of a cliff at Berry Head and that coastguards with rescue apparatus were searching for him....
Escort LAND'S END COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station at 0150 on Thursday October 16, 1980, that the fishing vessel Girl Christian was reported to be in difficulties four miles north of Trevose Head.<...
Shortly after 5 A.M. on 24th November a vessel was observed in the bay in dangerous prox- imity to the shore. The crew of the Life-boat Marianne L. Say were sum- moned and the boat launched. The wreck was reached at 6.30 A.M. and proved to...
Stromness, Orkneys. At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the body of a lighthouse keeper, who had been missing for over a week from Sule-Skerry, had been found south of Dunas...
The bar- quentine Britannia, of Guernsey, whilst bound from London to Hartlepool, stranded on the Cockle Sand on the 4th October. There was a moderate N.W. gale blowing, increasing to a heavy gale, and the sea on the sands was very heavy. A...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.15 in the evening, on the 13th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that three menin a rubber dinghy were drifting sea- wards off Ty-Croes. At 5.25 the life- boat A.E.D. was launched in a calm sea with a light...
OCTOBER 19TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
At 4.48 in the morning, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore one mile to the east, and at 5.50, in calm weather, the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. She...
THURSDAY, MAY 6, the day on which HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, came down to Dorset to open the new headquarters at Poole in the morning and name the new Swanage lifeboat in the afternoon, was both memorable and happy; a. day...
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The trawler Striver, of Great Yarmouth, was being towed into the harbour by a steam-tug at about 8.45 on the morning of the 25th October, during a N.E. to N.N.E. wind, squally weather, and a heavy sea. When crossing the bar, the tug came...