St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At i a.m.
on 25th August, 1965, the signal station told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off the east coast of Herm Island and at i.u the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put to sea...
NET CAUSED TROUBLE At i.20 a.m. on nth August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare seen in Portballantrae bay was being investigated. It was one hour before low water with a gentle southwesterly breeze. Twenty...
MOTOR CRUISER AGROUND NEAR SEA WALL Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small vessel was burning red flares in Seaford Bay, and at 1.50 the life-boat...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 5.9 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1955, the coastguard told the second cox- swain that a yacht was in difficulties south of Pakefield church, two miles south-south-west of the coastguard station. Eight minutes...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.39 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Sunk Lightvesset had reported what it thought to be a flare about two miles south-south-east of the...
Dungeness, Kent. At 8.56 on the evening of the 2nd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile south-south-west of the coastguard look-out at Lydd. At nine o'clock the...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.35 on the morning of the 6th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht with a crew of four had been reported in difficulties some fifteen miles south- east of St....
Wicklow, Co. Wexford. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, a man told the honorary secretary that a motor yacht was firing red flares half a mile south of Newcastle Point.
The life-boat J. W. Archer was...
At 3.30 p.m. on 19th August, 1969, while already at sea, a member of the crew of life-boat 44-001 on temporary duty at Sheerness saw a capsizeddinghy half a mile south west of Darnett Ness. There was a light wind with a slight sea. It was...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 1.40 a.m. on 14th May, 1967, news was received that a small yacht was drifting off the Sizewell bank with her engines out of action. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 2.10 in a fresh north...