On the 21st of January the Lytham life-boat again rendered a most important service. On the morning of that day a vessel was observed pn the Salthonse Bank making signals of distress, it blowing a hard gale from the N.W., with a heavy...
NOEFOLK, — The barque Alabama, of Helsingborg, Sweden, struck on the Sunk Sands off Hnnstanton on the evening of the 20th November, and then drove over the sands and filled with water. Being timber laden she did" not sink, but went...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. The S.S. Leo had wirelessed that she had seen a small sailing yacht near No.
6 Barrow Buoy which seemed to need help. So...
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.55 on the evening of the 10th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch appeared to have broken down one mile south-east of the pier. One of her crew of three was waving an oar, and at 6.17...
DROGHEDA.—The barque Emanuele Accame, of Genoa, bound from Bremerhaven for Swansea, in ballast, was riding at anchor in a dangerous position, about two miles N. of the Boyne bar, having lost three her four masts, on the 13th...
The new experimental IRB stationed at Lyme Regis, which is referred to on page 52, was built at Atlantic College in South Wales. The boat has a five-compartment 20-inch diameter special tube made by Messrs. Dunlop and is fabric strip glued... - View image in PDF
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The Board of Trade have prepared a scheme for the issue of boatmen's licenses to people in charge of small passenger vessels which ply in inland or in estuarial waters, or go only short distances to sea.
The scheme,...
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Torbay, Devon. At 5.35 p.m. on Friday, 23rd July 1965, the Brixham coastguard told the honorary secretary that a visitor had telephoned that two people were drifting out to sea in a small boat a mile off Orestone Rock. At 5.55 the life-boat...
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