NOV. 22ND. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 11.25 P.M. a message was received from the Wyke Regis coastguard that a vessel had been sunk by enemy action near the Shambles Light-vessel. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea...
SEPTEMBER 8TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson trainer aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £5 7s..
APRIL 25TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 2.40 in the afternoon the Greenore military look-out post reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about a mile north of Tuskar Rock Lighthouse.
Messages were also...
MARCH 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 10.40 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel burning flares one and a half miles N.W. by W., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 11.30. A strong southerly wind was blowing,...
MAY 25TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. At 6.34 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the R.A.F. command at Manston had reported an aeroplane down in the sea approximately five miles from Dunkirk, and that the naval authorities...
OCTOBER 2lST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The Walton coastguard reported a message, from Light-vessel No. 89, that a vessel was ashore three and a half miles to the S.E., but the life-boat found that the vessel was the m.v. Aridity, to...
On July zyth. an American air ambulance struck the cliffs of the Mull of Galloway and crashed on the shore. She was going to America, by way of Prestwick, and she had wounded soldiers from Normandy and nurses on board.
The...
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A father and son team were racing their yacht to the Fastnet Rock in the early hours of 17 June when they were hit by a large wave.
Thrown into the water, the harnesses they were wearing allowed them to clamber back...
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H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, and Coxswain Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer. - View image in PDF
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On the 26th March, 1860, a schooner was reported to be on shore on the Goodwin Sands. The Harbour Commis- sioners' life-boat Northumberland was quickly towed out to her assistance by the Harbour- tug Aid, there being a fresh wind from...