The flat Tran- sit, of Liverpool, whilst bound from Llanddulas to "Widnes with a cargo of limestone, had her sails blown away in a very heavy squall on the 10th December whilst proceeding down the Horse Channel and was rendered help-...
INJURED HAND At 6.30 a.m. on 2gth January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was on board the trawler Ben Glas a crew member whose hand had been severed and was bleeding profusely.
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At about 7 o'clock on the following morning flares were shown by a vessel in distress in Corton Eoads. The wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was rough at the time. The Lowestoft Lifeboat proceeded to her assistance, and found...
At about 4 A.M. on the 19th March, the Mincing Lane Life-boat was launched to the aid of the smack Orange Blossom, of Jersey, which was making for the harbour during a strong gale accompanied by snow storms and a very heavy sea.
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morning and early afternoon of the 27th January the weather was very bad, and only one coble, the Pilot Me, took the risk of going out. When she was seen returning a very heavy sea was running into the harbour,...
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Brighton and Shoreham lifeboat crews joined forces to assist fire officers during a fire that gutted the south end of Brighton's West Pier on 28 March 2003 The fire was raging out of control on the pier, with no way for fire teams to...
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1957, the Telegraph coastguard report- ed that a sailing dinghy had capsized between St. Mary's and St. Martin's and that two boys were in the water.<...
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At 9 A.M. on the 25th March, a three-masted barque was observed on the Codling Bank, and the Motor Life-boat Robert TheopMlus Garden was dispatched to her assistance.
Owing to the fact that the Life-boat had to proceed in...