Salcombe, Devon.—At 11.2 on the night of the 14th of June, 1957, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles west-north-west of Prawle Point. The life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out at 11.15 in a...
Broughry Ferry, Angus.—At 3.47 on the morning of the 30th of June, 1957, the Dundee police telephoned that a cabin cruiser was drifting up the River Tay towards the Tay bridge and was in danger of colliding with the stone piers of the Tay...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 2.42 on the afternoon of the 25th of August, 1957, a canoe was seen to capsize in heavy seas two miles off the harbour.
The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out at 3.2 in a very rough sea. There...
MARGATE. — On the 11th April the coastguard having reported a large steamer ashore on the main, the Life-boat Quiver No. 1 was launched at about 3 A.M., and found the steamer European, of Liverpool, bound from London for Antwerp, with a...
damage. He also felt it would be too dangerous to try to close alongside.
Instead, he instructed his crew to prepare a tow and moved the lifeboat, stern-first, towards the casualty's port bow. The occupants could be...
Category: Services
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—At 4.30 on the morning of the 10th of February, 1956, a wire- less distress message was received at the St. Peter Port signal station from the M.V. Conlea, of London, which...
75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
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DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...
The brig Wanderer, of Maryport, was being towed into that harbour during a south-westerly gale on the 18th December, when the tow- rope broke, and she drove ashore behind the North Pier. The Life-boat Henry Nixson, No. 1, promptly put off...
HELPED CATAMARAN Life-boat O.N. 44-001. Later the same day while the 44-foot steel life-boat O.N. 44-001 was coming out of the river Medina after assisting a sailing dinghy, a catamaran was seen to capsize in the fresh south-westerly breeze...