'Life' landmark: Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, pictured during the special "This Is Your Life" programme about him. Derek, holder of the «/;.«, two silver and one bronze RNLI bravery awards, as... - View image in PDF
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At 2005 information was received that Scarborough lifeboat was launching to investigate red flares sighted by Flamborough Coastguard and at 2240 Filey lifeboat was requested by Tees Coastguard to launch to join Whitby and Scarborough...
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APRIL 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.30 A.M. anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...
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NOVEMBER 1ST. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 7.21 in the evening, the Wyke Regis coastguard reported a vessel aground on Shambles Bank. She was the Swedish tanker Ariston, of 15,000 tons, laden with oil, from America for the United...
AUGUST 18TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. The trawler Newlands arrived with sixteen survivors of the S.S. Sylvafield, of Newcastle, an oil tanker, which had been torpedoed and sunk off Barra Head on the night of the 15th August. The vessel had...
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...
At 12.30 P.M. on the 7th October the Coastguard received a telephone mes- sage from the Smalls Lighthouse stating that a schooner had struck a reef close by and was likely to become a total wreck; also that the crew had taken to the...
At 9 A.M. on the 1st October Coxswain John Haylett was informed that a steamer was ashore on the north part of the Scroby Sands.
The No. 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy was launched with the least possible delay and proceeded to the...