SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—On the morning of the 25th March, a strong breeze was blowing from N.E., the sea was moderate and the weather thick, with snow squalls. About 10 o'clock the coxswain of the Life-boat James Steveiis No. 9 received...
Salcombe, Devon - At 4.10 p.m. on 15th September, 1968, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties near Starhole bay. At 4.43 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in a strong north easterly breeze with a rough sea. It...
Struck wreck WARDEN POINT COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Sheerness lifeboat station at 2046 on Saturday December 30, 1978, that a red flare had been sighted in Gillingham Reach. Maroons were fired at 2049 and at 2106...
The schooner Brazilian of South Shields, whilst bound from that port to Stornoway with a cargo of coal, became windbound and lay in Longhope Bay for some days.
A change in the wind enabled her to proceed on her voyage, but...
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 5.25 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the yacht Molin, anchored in St. Ives Bay, was making distress signals. At 5.50 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...
On the morning of the 28th May the coast- guard telephoned that a trawler was ashore at Snab Point. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate ground swell and a thick fog.
The life-boat crew, most of whom were...
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Surfer saved by D class in appal l|n g conditionsTramore's D class inflatable saved a surfer on 6 June lastyear in conditions which tested both the lifeboat and her crew to the limit.
In conditions which turned out to...
The King has awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life at Sea to John Robert Harland, of the Whitby life-boat crew, for diving overboard to the rescue of a fisherman in a heavy sea. As announced in the last issue, the Institution...
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