Runs aground: not quite Lords but an equally demanding wicket. Due to obvious tidal reasons the sponsored cricket match between Chichester branch and the Hayling Island lifeboat crew and supporters had to be limited to 20 overs per innings.... - View image in PDF
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 10.30 on the night of the 15th of April, 1948.
the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Kingfisher, of London, needed a doctor to attend to her chief officer.
As no other...
PALLING, NORFOLK.—At 2.30 A.M. on the llth March, during squally weather, a vessel was observed showing signals of distress. The No. 2 Life-boat British Workman was promptly launched, and proceeded to the "vessel, which proved to be the...
LOWESTOFT.—During a heavy gale from the N.E., on the 28th October, several shipwrecks, with loss of life, took place off Lowestoft. At about 11 P.M. the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat, after much regrettable delay and difficulty, was launched and...
On the 30th September, the schooner Bonnie Lass, of Wick, struck on the rocks off' Saltburn, during foggy weather. The life-boat at the latter place went off through a heavy sea and brought ashore the mate of the vessel, with the view to...
At daylight on the 17th November, the barque Storm, of Cardiff, was observed ashore about six miles from this place, with a signal of dis- tress flying, the wind blowing strongly at the time from the N.N.E. The Life-boat Cheltenham was...
At about 4.50 A.M. on 25th February a message was received from the Coastguards, stating that a vessel was ashore at the mouth of the River Bann, and that the Life-boat was wanted. The Life-boat Hopwood was launched as expeditiously as...
During a strong wind from N.W., on the 17th June, the ship Mary Roe, of Quebec, struck on the Cefn Sidan Sands, about seven miles from this place. As soon as in- formation of the disaster was received, the City of Manchester life-boat was...
On the morning of the 4th December, the same Life-boat brought safely to land a fishing coble and her crew of four men, who had been caught in a gale from the E.S.E., and were in much peril..
The Margate, Kent, 1KB assisting the m.f.v. Jaroma on 24th August, 1969, when she ran aground on a sand bank. Four men were taken off her and the service in which the Margate life-boat also took part is described on this. - View image in PDF
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