CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 2nd February, signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the direction of the Barber Sand. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend promptly proceeded to the Sand and found the smack Peace, of Lowestoft...
ABOUT eight in the morning of 20th December, 1938,' the life-boat watch- man at Rosslare Harbour, County Wexford, reported that he could see a schooner apparently at anchor near Splaugh Rocks. An easterly gale was blowing, with a very...
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Fishing vessel towed to safety in storm force winds Appledore and Ilfracombe lifeboats were both involved in a service to a fishing vessel near Bideford Bar on 31 March 1994. Coxswain Michael Bowden of Appledore lifeboat was awarded the...
On October 27, 1959, Fraserburgh lifeboat, The Duchess of Kent, heads out into a gale and mountainous seas. In escorting one fishing vessel back to harbour and in plucking the crew of another to safety after their yawl had been rolled onto... - View image in PDF
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Margate, Kent.—At 12.42 on the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had run ashore on the Hook Sands.
At 12.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was...
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.34 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress thirteen and a half miles south-east-by-east of Portland. At 5.55 the life-boat Mil- burn, on temporary...
— At about noon on the llth January, during a whole S.E. gale with very heavy squalls, and a rough sea, it was reported to Coxswain McEachran that a fishing- boat on a lee shore in the Loch had broken adrift, collided with and badly damaged...
JUNE MEETING PORTREATH, CORNWALL. At 9.10 in the morning of the 7th January, 1942, a coastguard saw a rubber dinghy in the sea one and a half miles N.W. of Portreath look-out.
A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
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Three saved from motor ship aground and awash off beachawash off beach Whitstable and Sheerness lifeboats were launched after the motor ship Johnno broadcast a Mayday on 12 January 1995. The vessel, on passage from the Isle of Grain to...
J UNE 2 1 S T. - WICK, CAITHNESSbound SHIRE. Shortly after 6 P.M. the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. seaplane was on the sea one and a half miles east of Occumster, and was drifting, with her engines stopped, towards Clythness. A fresh S...