FISHING VESSEL'S ENGINE BREAKS DOWN New Brighton, Cheshire. At half past twelve on the morning of Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain repor- ted that the fishing vessel Phoenician had broken down with engine trouble and had...
Margate, Kent.—At 11.7 on the morn- ing of the 14th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to pass on a report that a cabin cruiser north of East Margate buoy was burning a flare and flashing a light. At 11.20 the life-boat North...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.25 on the night of the 13th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sagona that red flares had been seen east of the West Sunk...
Tow line passed in SW gale Hastings - South East Division On Thursday, 24 March 1988 the Station Honorary Secretary at Hastings, John Heyes, heard on VHP channel 6 that the fishing vessel My Lass of Rye had broken her propeller shaft two...
FEB. 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.30 A.M. the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore on the end of Spurn Point. The coxswain immediately went to the beach, where he saw the steam trawler HAUSA, of...
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, a report was received that a naval sea cadet whaler was in difficulties west of Perch Rock lighthouse. At 4.45 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put out in a rough sea...
FATAL CLIFF FALL At 2.20 p.m. on ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a police report that a man had fallen over the cliff between The Needles and Freshwater Bay. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe left at...
Famous Shipwrecks.
" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...
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PENZANCE. — On the 4th March a whole gale blew from the W., the sea was high, and the weather very squally, with heavy showers of hail. At 9.30 A.M. the barque Lady Gladys, of Tonsberg, bound from Darien, U.S., to Dublin, with pitch pine,...
Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 6.45 p.m. on I2th January, 1966, the Wick coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a distress call from the fishing vessel Rowan Tree which stated that she was in a sinking condition near...