Again, on the 31st January, one of the most gallant of the many gallant Life- boat services that are from time to time recorded took place in the neighbourhood of Montrose. For two days previously a strong gale had blown from the south- east...
Caister, Norfolk.—At 4.38 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw flares on the North Scroby Sand. At 5.10 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched.
There was a ground swell and a light...
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SHOREHAM.—On the 17th January, the smack Wisdom, of Shoreham, in attempting to leave the harbour at about 6 P.M.
got foul of the new extension works, and hung by her shrouds. The crew were unable to get the vessel clear,...
During the afternoon of the llth April, the brigan- tine Mary Annie, of Folkestone, stranded on the sands to the westward of the Cockle Light-vessel, and a yawl put off to her assistance. On reaching the vessel the men in the yawl found that...
Harbour accident THE LIFEBOAT CALL-OUT paging signal alerted Second Coxswain Christopher Tett of Weymouth on the afternoon of Easter Monday, March 31. 1986. He drove straight to the lifeboathouse, and as he made his way inside he noticed...
Shortly after midnight on the 4th-oth July, flares were observed by the Coastguard on duty at Westward Ho ! He at once communicated by telephone with Apple- dore, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was sent to the place...
CABIN CRUISER TAKEN IN TOW Barrow, Lancashire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, the Walney lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen near the Bar buoy. There was a light easterly breeze...
BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.—At 5.30 on the morning of 21st August it was reported that a vessel was drifting shorewards before a stiff gale from the W. The coxswain of the Robert William Life-boat lost no time in assembling his crew and taking...
Ramsey, Isle of Man - At n p.m. on 22nd March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had intercepted a message from the wireless transmitting station Radio Caroline in Ramsey Bay that there was an injured man on...