A Central Appeals Committee of voluntary workers for the R.N.L.I. has been formed under the chairmanship of Mr. Norman Crumbie. Its terms of reference are: (i) To advise, through the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., on any matters affecting fund...
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On the 17th February, shortly before 11 P.M., whilst the schooner Sarah Ann, of Fowey, was bound from London to Bridport, with a cargo of cement, she stranded on the Newcombe Bar Her signals for assis- tance were seen by the Coastguard who...
Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin SandsBoth of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW gale with 14 people on board...
Arbroath, Angus.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 24th of July, 1955, the police reported that a boy was stranded on the rocks at Red Head.
At 0.30 the life-boat Howard I), was launched. The sea was calm, the...
FEBRUARY 3RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.5 in the morning the naval control at Southend reported that H.M.
drifter Silver Seas had been abandoned and was adrift to the west side of Southend pier.
RAMSGATE.—At 3.45 P.M. on 29th November, in answer to signals from the North Goodwin Light-vessel, the Life-boat Bradford was towed out of the harbour by the steam-tug Aid. A strong N.W.
gale was blowing at the time,...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.20 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a number of Fraserburgh fishing boats had been caught in a violent northerly gale off Rattray Head. At 9.32...
At about 7 P.M. on the 20th November, during a strong gale from the N.W., signals of distress were seen in the direction of Wexford Bar. The same Lifeboat was promptly manned, and proceededto the spot, and found that the fishing yawl Dazzler...
Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...
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