PORT LOGAN.—A message by telephone was received from the coastguard at Drummore on the 25th January, reporting that a vessel was flying a signal of distress. The wind was blowing a moderate to a strong gale, the sea was heavy, and the...
Plymouth, Devon - At 2.25 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, red flares were reported from a yacht in Cawsand bay. At 2.36 the life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse left her moorings. It was three hours after low water. There was a south easterly...
Salcombe, Devon.—At 9.7 on the night of the 4th of November, 1954, the Prawle Point coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen half a mile south-east of Prawle Point. At 9.20 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse put out. There...
On the 14th December the schooner Adina, of London, was totally wrecked during a strong gale from the S.W. and heavy sea, near the East Holm Buoy, on the Gorton Sand, off Lowestoft.
The Lcetitia life-boat at the latter...
On the even- ing of the 21st July two men and two women visitors put out from the har- bour in the motor yacht Maroc, in a moderate N.W. breeze, with a rough sea, not knowing the danger they would run in returning. The motor life-boat...
The Wreck of the St Ives Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat In The Lord Mayor's Show Passing St Paul's. - View image in PDF
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In response to guns from the East Goodwin Light- vessel indicating a vessel was on that part of the sands, the Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at 8.30 A.M. on the 10th March. A passing steamer kindly towed the Life-boat part of the way...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 10.30 p.m. on I2th June, 1965, the coxswain was told that a vessel was burning red flares in Perwick Bay. The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden on temporary duty at the station set out in thick fog at 11.15 in a...