JULY 18TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. About ten in the morning a telephone call from Pegwell convalescent home reported a yacht in difficulties in Pegwell Bay. A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. At 10.20 the motor...
FEBRUARY 1 T. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A vessel had been reported ashore at Speeton Cliffs, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £20.
LAUNCH FOUND AGROUND ON SANDS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.33 on the evening of the 17th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the launch Marina was aground one mile north-west of Wallet Spitway buoy.
The...
At about 6 P.M. on the 25th August several large herring boats and a yacht were to be seen making for port, and two miles N.E. of the pier head the yacht was dismasted. A nasty sea was running and it was blowing very fresh from the north—at...
Vellum service LAST QUARTER'S issue of THE LIFEBOAT reported a service on May 25, 1986 by Ramsey lifeboat to three yachts in trouble at the end of Isle of Man's round the island race. The three yachts were towed one after the other...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1953, the motor fishing boat Vigilant, which had been blown ashore from her moor- ings in a gale, was refloated and towed into the River Tees by two men in a small dinghy...
17th Nov- ember. Three men were in difficulties in a small boat, but they managed to beach her.—Rewards, £21 8s. 6d..
Nov. 6TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A small boat had lost her mast and sail, andwas drifting, but she managed to reach harbour without help. - Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..
NORTH BERWICK.—The schooner Oberscew, from Dychling for Burntisland, laden with esparto grass, stranded on the rocks at Seacliff Point during a strong E.N.E.
breeze, a very rough sea and a thick fog on the 29th March. A...
DEC. 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 5.30 P.M. a message was received that H.M. Minesweeper Susette had gone aground on North Beach and was making signals of distress A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing and she had missed the...