On the evening of the 22nd April the Coastguard re- ported that a steamer was ashore on the rocks to the west of St. Alban's Head, and making signals of distress; • and a subsequent message from Kim- meridge smggested that the Life-boat...
Holy Island, Northumberland.—On the 21st January the North Sunderland honorary secretary asked, through the coastguard, for the motor life-boat Milburn to go to the help of twelve North Sunderland motor fishing cobles which had been caught...
AHBROATH.—Shortly before 1 P.M. on the 23rd January the People's Journal No. 2 Life-boat was launched, during a strong gale of wind from the S.S.E., accompanied by hail and rain, with a high sea on the bar, to the assistance of a number...
, Northumber- land.—Ort the 22nd December the Grimsby steam trawler Guillemot stranded, and three men of the crew were rescued by the Boulmer Motor Life-boat. The Holy Island No. 1 Motor Life-boat was also launched.
The...
YACHT'S CREW TAKE TO DINGHY New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had foundered off Harrison drive and that her crew had taken to a...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 18th of July, 1957, the Deal coastguard telephoned to say a tanker was aground on the Goodwin Sands. At 3.45 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out in a moderate sea. There was a...
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At noon on the 3rd of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the cabin cruiser Elizabeth Victoria of Swansea was in difficulties half a mile south ofthe coastguard look-out. The life-boat William...
At 8.35 P.M.
on the 18th February, information was received from the Coastguard that rocket signals had been seen between Pepper- combe and Clovelly, but that nothing further was known. The motor Life- boat V.C.S. was...
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 268 Life-boat Stations...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. —- At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1956, immediately after the life- boat had returned from a previous service, a message was received from the Southend (Argyll) coastguard that a small...