Aberdeen.—At 8.7 on the night of the 5th of February, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel was thought to be ashore two miles south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. At 8.45 he reported that she was sounding her siren...
On 4th December at 12.30 P.M. the Motor Life- boat Mary Scott was launched to the help of the motor fishing boat Emma, of Southwold, with three men on board, which had been seen by the Coastguard to be flying a distress signal about one mile...
FRENCH FISHING VESSEL IN ST. IVES BAY St. Ives, Cornwall.—For several days before the 2nd of May, 1947, the French motor fishing vessel L'Entente Cordiale, of Lorient, had been anchored in St.
Ives Bay, and had been a...
LUNCHEON CLUBS associated with the Life-boat Service have become increasingly popular in recent years in Yorkshire. The first ladies' life-boat luncheon club was established at Leeds, and there are now similar clubs in Bradford,...
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OCTOBER 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.15 P . M . information was received from the Walton coastguard that a vessel had been mined and was sinking near the East Oaze Light-vessel. A fresh easterly wind was blowing, with a choppy...
ESCORTING A YACHT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.0 in the evening of the 4th of April, 1947, the Warden Point coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Redsands about two miles south-east of Redsand Towers and that seas were...
Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 394 New Year Message from the Chairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395 Letters 400 Prince of Life-boats—a Diary by J. P. Morris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402 Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters'...
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LERWICK'S 27 HOURS' SEARCH.
Lerwick, and Aith, Shetlands.—4th October, 1939. In the morning a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E.
of the N.E. corner of...
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Exmouth, Devon.—The motor lifeboat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched at 11.30 A.M. on the 27th July, 1938, to the auxiliary yacht Florence II, of Southampton, which had been under observation by the coastguard for some time. A fresh and...