LOWESTOFT.—Flares having been seen N.E. of the Newcome Sands, during a strong N.W. wind and a rough sea, on the night-of the 25th November, the Life-boat Two Sisters Mary and Hannah went out at 10 o'clock, and found the sloop Richard and...
— The motor life-boat J. and W. put out at 10.40 A.M. on the 12th March, in a moderate N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, to search for the motor fishing boat Unity, which had been reported to be in distress with an engine breakdown about seven...
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—'On the 23rd March, a vessel was seen ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Vulcan steamtug and the Life-boat immediately proceeded out, and steered direct for the spot. On arriving near the sand, the Life-boat was...
100 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, August, 1888 Issue.
Brighstone Grange and Brooke, Isle of Wight On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a...
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Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 3rd of April, 1949, the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell rescued the crew of eight of the ketch Alpha, of Stranraer, and rescued six of them a second time after they had returned to the ketch. Rewards, the bronze...
Bill Gough. Cowbridge branch press officer since 1986. Mr Gough joined the committee in 1977 and organised house-tohouse collections. He was awarded a statuette in 1992.
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The fish- ing boat Vivid, belonging to Wexford, struck on the Dogger Bank when re- turning from the fishing grounds on the llth January. Signals of distress were made, and with great promptness the crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15...
During a moderate gale with a heavy sea on the 7th July, the Life-boat Sarah Kay was called out to the assistance of a naval motor-barge, which had become un- manageable and stranded about four miles to the east of...
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 9th February a messenger from Perran Zabuloe arrived at Newquay with intelligence that a vessel was at anchor, in a very, dangerous position, near Hoblyn's Cove, east of Perran...