AUGUST 27TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 12.16 P.M. the coastguard reported that a small rowing boat was in difficulties off Porthdinllaen Point.
A moderately strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
On the afternoon of the llth October the assistant motor mechanic reported to the coxswain that a man had put off in a small boat from the pilot boat to go ashore on Piel Island, but had been caught by a heavy squall, had lost control of...
Olive Laura Deare Mrs Olive Deare A naming ceremony for the E class lifeboat at Gravesend station, on the Thames, took place on Saturday, 26 April at the Fort Gardens. The O Ve Laura Deare is the first E class lifeboat to be improved and...
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The Life-boat crew were called at midnight on the 30th of March, signals of distress having been observed in the roads, supplemented by rockets fired from the Light-vessel. The Mark Lane Life-boat was launched, and soon reached the...
Hastings, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 13th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary at Hastings telephoned the coxswain of the Dungeness life-boat to ask if any of the local boats had seen the fishing boat...
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
At 8.47 P.M. on the 13th January, the Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles north-east of the station. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched and found that the vessel was the steam...
CULLERCOATS.—The Co-Operator No. 1 Life-boat was launched on the 28th of January, several fishing cobles having been overtaken by a heavy sea. As the weather was foggy and the sea breaking heavily on the bar, the Life-boat remained afloat...
Soulhend-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 2.35 P.M. on the 21st June, 1939, a message was received from the Shoeburyness Garrison that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Shoebury. Then a second message came that the yacht had capsized....
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