Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 9th of February, 1953, the coxswain learned from the skipper of the fishing boat Happy Home that the motor fishing drifter Florence, of Glandore, was burning flares south- east of...
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 6th August the Bude coastguard reported that a small yacht, with four men on board, had left Bude for Boscastle some hours earlier, but had not arrived, and that a light had been seen off Carnbeak. A...
During a whole N.N.W. gale on the 8th January a vessel was sighted dismasted and apparently at anchor about eight miles off Trevose Head. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were summoned, and in tow of the Institution's tug...
Selsey, Sussex. At 11.51 on the morn- ing of the 26th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that it had been reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties one mile off the Marine Hotel. A fresh south- westerly...
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ARBROATH by east of Arbroath, and the motor life- FEBRUARY 9TH. -ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 10.35 in the morning boat John and William Mudie was distress signals were heard south-east launched at once. It was very hazy. A...
The Gorleston No. 1 Life-' boat Mark Lane was launched at 11.55 P.M. on the 28th October in response to signals of distress from the Corton Light-vessel. When proceeding to her, flares were seen on a drifter near the Sands, and the...
Signals of distress having been shown by the ship Troop, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow for San Francisco with steel rails, the Fishguard No. 2 Life-boat, the Appin, put off at 8 A.M., on the 7th November, during a strong breeze from the...
At 9.20 A.M. the same day the Life- boat was again launched to a vessel in •distress off the Head, the wind having changed to N.N.W. and increased to a strong gale. In her first attempt to get out of harbour the Life-boat was un- successful...
ON the morning of 24th March, a very cold morning, with a heavy sea running, the Boulmer Life-boat was launched to stand by seven returning fishing boats of Craster, which, owing to the heavy seas breaking right across the Bar, would find it...
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. — Shortly after 10.30 P.M. on the 5th July the coastguard received a message from the Gunfleet lighthouse that the Barrow Deep light-vessel was firing signals of distress. The weather was fine, with a calm sea and...