Sails jammed A MAYDAY MESSAGE from the yacht, Nell Gwyn, in distress off Amlwch, was received by Holyhead coastguard on the morning of Monday October 8, 1984.
At 1127 Moelfre's lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rother class,...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.17 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Priory Bay. At 3.26 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched in a rough sea. A southerly...
Once a lifeboatman, always a lif eboatman - or that was the case at Barrow on 19 March 1992 when the Barrow lifeboat mechanic Bryan Jackson enlisted the aid of ex-lifeboatman Ernest Diamond to rescue a windsurfer in a half-hour...
At 6.30 P.M. on the 13th March during a S.W. gale, information was received that a barge— the Jachin, of Maldon — bound from London to Newport, Isle of Wight, with a cargo of wheat, had struck the bar and was driving into the Bay. The Motor...
(Below) Commander F. R. H. Swann, CUE, Chairman of the Management Committee, describes steering position details to Alderman F. W. Marshall, Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and the Lady... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
OCT. 31ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Two local fishing boats Premier and Pride were out, and anxiety was felt for their safety. The lifeboat crew and helpers assembled...
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 4.43 in the afternoon a message was received from the signal station at Spurn Point that a small sailing yacht was in difficulties on the Binks. A south-east wind was blowing, and the sea was...
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 7th of November, 1948, the local fishing boat Courage, with a crew of five, was overtaken by bad •weather. The sea was rough in the bay and at the harbour entrance, and when, just before noon...
JANUARY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 2.8 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore in Cymeran Bay, near Rhosneigr.
A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. It was bitterly cold. The motor life-boat...
ONLY a broken rudder, only a ruin'd sail— Only a shatter'd topmast, only a sea-bird's wail.
Here is the good ship's pinnace—all of her that is left— There are the yards and rigging—a tangled woof and...
Category: Poetry