At 10.18 A.M. on the.29th, July a message was received from the Coastguard that a small yacht had been dismasted near Orfordness, and wanted help. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain squalls. The Motor Life-boat A...
— 6th May. Distress signals had been heard in the direction of the Fame Islands, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £10 5s..
On the morning of the 26th May the coxswain saw the motor fishing boat Enterprise, of Hythe, in difficulties and drifting some distance to the S.W. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat City of...
Longhope, Orkneys, and Thurso, Caithness- shire.— On the 21st February the French trawler Neptunia ran aground, and her crew of forty-one were rescued by the Longhope lifeboat.
The Thurso life-boat was also...
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boat Eagle put out at 1 P.M. on the 16th May to haul crab and lobster pots. After she had been gone for about an hour the sea got very rough, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at...
Margate, Kent.—At about 8.30 A.M.
on the 3rd August the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was ashore on Margate Sand west of the North Sand Beacon. The sea was choppy, with a strong westerly wind. At 8.40 A.M.
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Newbiggin, Northumberland. — The local motor fishing cobles Homeland, Provider and Harold did not return when expected on the 17th December, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Arthur R. Dawes was launched at 2.2 P.M. A fresh S.E. breeze...
FISHING BOAT ON FIRE Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 18th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals and at 5.55 the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A strong west-south-west breeze was...
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—About 6.40 in the evening of the lit11 of April, 1949, the coastguard reported a fishing boat in difficulties to the southward, and the life-boat Jeanie Spears was launched at 7.5 in a fresh west-south- west breeze...
A model of the life-boat, Queen Victoria, in the battle of flowers at Guernsey.. - View image in PDF
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