LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main ' body. The latter is formed of a keelway i and of side or bilgeways attached to the j...
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St. Andrews.
In the middle of the night of March 8th the steam trawler Loch Long, of Aberdeen, went ashore in a heavy snow squall on the reef of rocks known as Balcomie Briggs. A gale was blowing; the sea was rough ; and...
In addition to the Dover Life-boat, the Ramsgate boat, Charles and Susanna Stephens, also put off to the barque Gudrun, and when endeavouring to get alongside, the boat was dashed against the barque and badly damaged. She got clear and...
During a whole N.W. gale and heavy sea on the 20th February, the schooner J. T. S., of Barrow, got into difficulties whilst at anchor in the Roads, and at 4 P.M.
made signals of distress. The Life-boat Star of Hope was...
DUTCH VESSEL AGROUND IN FOG Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.33 on the night of the 25th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Carmen of Groningen was ashore on the west side of Sulley Island....
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At daybreak on the 30th January the barque Celestina, of Fiume, which had been riding in the bay for some days, was seen dismasted but riding easily at her anchor. Subsequently signals were shown, and, in response to...
At 8.37 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, it was noticed that a motor boat one mile northnorth- west of Cape Cornwall had fired a distress rocket. The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at 8.45 in a strong north-westerly wind and a very rough sea....
A CAREFUL WATCH Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the early morning of the 21st of September, 1947, a motor ketch left Yarmouth for Wisbech, in fine weather, but the wind got up, and when, about 10 o'clock, she was off Sheringham, she was...
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 3.15 in the afternoon, on the 19th of January, 1951, the coxswain saw the local motor fishing boat Grace Stuart approaching the har- bour. There was a heavy sea across the bar with a north-westerly breeze, and...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 7.45 on the morning of the 29th of Sep- tember, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares three hundred yards off Porth Nant Quarry.
At 8.10 the life-boat Charles...