KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—On the morning of the 18th September, signals of distress were fired by a vessel which proved to bo the steamer Dolphin, of London, bound from London to Havre, with a general cargo and passengers, which had been in...
At 6.45 p.m. on I4th September, 1966, the sailing yacht Cambus Omay, with a crew of three, asked for the assistance of the life-boat off St. Catherine's Point as her engines had broken down and her sails had been carried away. The...
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At 10.30 P.M., on the 26th May, distress signals were | reported from the Princess Light-vessel, and the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet l was launched and proceeded to her.
There they learnt that a vessel...
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 1.25 on the morning of the 13th of October, 1950, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Wyre Captain, of Fleetwood, had reported that she was ashore in Islay Sound off Port Askaig and needed...
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—After a heavy which had been blowing for some days, temporary fine weather induced several fishing- boats to go to sea on the 5th April. Soon afterwards heavy ground seas set in, and fishing-boats from Eyemouth and several...
Eleven-hourservice in Force 11 winds saves six Coxswain David Mason could hardly have known how many 'firsts' he was going to notch up when he took Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new Trent class to sea at 0500 on 29...
On the 14th February, the local fishing fleet was caught at sea by a very sudden strong W.N.W. gale. A rough sea was running. The cobles ran for home, and the life-boat coxswain, first ashore in his coble, launched the motor life- boat L.P....
Dover, Kent. At 4.41 on the after- noon of the 16th of May, 1959, the coastguard at Sandgate informed the honorary secretary that two people were cut off by the tide at Big Fall, St.
Margaret's Bay. After talking with...
Three rescued after yacht is rolled in storm force windsA Courtmacsherry Harbour trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had...