Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.11 a.m. on ist November, 1965, the motor vessel Clarity was reported to be dragging her anchor and running aground half-amile west of No. 4 Sea Reach buoy. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30)...
10th Sep- tember. A steamer stranded, but her crew got ashore in the ship's boat.— Eewards, £3 2s. &d..
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Trent Lifeboat The Trent class is the smaller of the RNLI's new lifeboat designs which have been designed to replace the Waveney and Arun classes of lifeboat.
There are now 21 Trents in service and their coxswains and...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight- At 6.40p.m.
on 21st November, 1968, informa-tion was received that flares had been seen south east of Nomansland fort near the Warner Shoal. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 7.5. The tide...
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 2.55 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1956, the county police rang up to say that the yacht Cistus with a crew of four had struck an unlighted buoy in the Wyre Channel and had sunk. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...
Signals of distress were reported to have been seen in Church Bay, at about 11.15 P.M., on the llth February. The Life-boat therefore proceeded to the spot and found the brig J.B.8., of London, at anchor close to the rocks. After consulting...
CRESSWELL.—While a fresh wind was blowing from S.E., accompanied by foggy weather and a heavy sea, on the 13th March, the brig Vaaren, of and from Tvedestrand for Newcastle-on-Tyne, laden with pit-props, stranded at Quarry...
The Life-boat Lizzie Ellen was launched on the 12th January to the assistance of a vessel which was being towed into Mount's Bay with a distress signal flying. Before they reached the vessel she anchored, and the steamer which had been...
The No. 2 Life-boat at Palling, Hearts of Oak, and the Louisa Heartwell, from Croiner, were launched to the assistance of the ship Walkure, of Hamburg, which stranded on the Haisboro Sands on the 4th December. The vessel, which was a large...