Harwich: At 0630 on the morning of Friday June 8, 1984, Harwich's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, John Fison, slipped her moorings to go to the aid of the 107ft schooner, Stina. Returning to Maldon from Amsterdam with nine people on board,...
HARWICH.—At 5.30 P.M. on the 24th January, the Springivell Life-boat was launched in reply to signals from the Gunfleet Lightship. She sailed to her through a rough sea, and was informed that there was a vessel on the " Heaps," a...
JANUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.14 A.M. the coastguard reported a sailing barge aground on the Gunfleet Sands, four miles S.E. of Clacton pier. A moderate S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a rather rough sea. The motor lifeboat...
INJURED MAN LANDED FROM DRIFTING TANKER Wicklow, Co. Wicklow. At 9.45 a.m.
on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that an injured man on board the tanker Esso Guildford, 22 miles east of the...
TWO YACHTS TAKEN IN TOW New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.20 on the evening of the 22nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground between the revetment and Taylor's bank. The life-boat White Star, on...
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On the even- ing of the 21st July two men and two women visitors put out from the har- bour in the motor yacht Maroc, in a moderate N.W. breeze, with a rough sea, not knowing the danger they would run in returning. The motor life-boat...
Storm launch A CARGO VESSEL, Gloriosa, making for Kings Lynn was reported to the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Wednesday January 11, a day of exceptionally high tides and winds on the east coast...
Anstruther, Fife - At 3.12 p.m. on 20th May, 1967, news was received that a yacht had been seen flying distress signals off Fifeness. The life-boat The Doctors was launched at 3.30 in a fresh west south westerly wind and a rough sea. It was...
FOUR YOUNG MEN RESCUED FROM ROCKS Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 7th July, 1962, the coastguard told the second coxswain of a police report from Seaton Carew that four young men had been cut off by the tide on...