JAN. 19TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
Prolonged blowing of a siren had been heard in the direction of the Shambles Light-vessel, but no vessel in distress was found. - Rewards, £l3 2s. 6d.
At 2.3 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, a visitor informed the honorary secretary that a small boy was adrift in a rubber dinghy. The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 2.25 in a gentle breeze and a slight sea. The tide was flooding....
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.20 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1959, a message was received from the honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour that a Dutch vessel was stran- ded on the rocks in Dunmore Bay and was sending...
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork.—On the night of the 14th of April, 1948, the Civic Guard telephoned that a boat was in distress in the bay, and at 11 o'clock the motor life-boat Sarah Ward and William David Crosvueller was...
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 10th October, as a very heavy sea had got up, with heavy rain showers and a strong and increas- ing N.E. wind, and the local fishing coble Sea Queen was at sea....
The business of the morning over, Paul Daniels, with some of the Sea Scouts and Cub Sea Scouts who had witnessed the KNLI's ninth national lottery, took a look round the headquarters museum. One undoubted attraction was the working model... - View image in PDF
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Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 12.33 early on the morning of the 13th of September, 1955, the Formby coast- guard telephoned that the M.V. Alba, of Genoa, which had broken down on the 12th and had been towed by a tug to a position...
On the morning of the 24th February a Seaford resident telephoned to the assistant honorary secretary that a steamer was ashore at Seaford Head. She was the Unbe Mendi, of Bilbao, bound for Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore. A moderate S.W....
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.36 on the evening of the 14th of September, ] 957, the Foreland coastguard reported that a sailing boat appeared to be sig- nalling S.O.S. The life-boat Jesse Litmb was launched at 8.50 in a moder- ate sea....
Three children adrift THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Margate lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1715 on Tuesday, June 1, that three children in an inflatable dinghy were being taken out to sea on the ebb tide.
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