AUGUST 14TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 12.15 P.M., during an air-raid, a British aeroplane was seen from the life-boathouse to crash about three miles to the northward.
A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The crew...
Aberdeen.—At 2.11 early on the morning of the 29th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that he had heard long and short blasts on a siren from a vessel near the harbour or lighthouse. He later stated that the lighthouse keeper...
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 1.46 on the afternoon of the llth of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a yacht appeared to have cap- sized three miles south-south-east of Portland Bill. At two o'clock the life-boat William...
The Institution has received a gift of £25 from the ship's fund of the auxiliary cruiser "H.M.S. Jervis Bay," which was sunk in November, 1940, when very gallantly defending a convoy of British ships from a powerful German...
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On the 6th August the motor vessel Capable, of London, ran aground in Bigbury Bay in a dense fog, while bound to London with a cargo of stone.
She carried a crew of eight. The Master sent a man ashore, and the news was sent...
Whitstable, Kent. At 12.37 P-m- on 28th July, 1965, the police told the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties two and a half miles north-east of the station.
Three other youths...
CROMER OUT FOR EIGHTEEN HOURS Cromer, Norfolk.—At 5.20 in the evening of the 26th of October, 1947, the Palling coastguard reported that the motor vessel Gold Gnome, of London, was flying distress signals off Happis- burgh and the No. 2...
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 10.40 on the night of the 20th of October, 1958, a message was received from the local trawlers' agent that there was a sick man on board the steam trawler Boston Gannet of Fleetwood. The skipper had asked that...
CENTENARY Vellums have been presented to a number of Stations during the present year, and reports of these Ceremonies'will appear in the next issue of The Lifeboat..
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At 5 A.M.
on the 30th September the Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9, received a message from the pier-head that a ketch was driving down on to the pier. The Coxswain assembled his crew and proceeded to the...