SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At 6.46 in the evening the Bude coastguard reported that a boat, a mile off Bude breakwater, needed help. A strong west-south-west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At seven o’clock...
IP a motor boat could speak, the Beaumaris motor Life - boat, which should reach her station shortly after this article is in print, would be able to make a boast which few of her sister boats could equal, and which should prove a source of...
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Again, on the 20th Aug., during a south- westerly gale, the Life-boat proceeded to the schooner Rapid, of Preston, which had a signal flying for assistance, her sails being torn, and her anchors not holding.
On arriving...
Donaghadee, Co. Down. — About 10.10 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1952, a yacht was observed burning distress signals at Copeland Island, and information was received from the coastguards and police. At 10.35 the life-boat Sir...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 7.50 on the morning of the 31st of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht appeared to need help one and a half miles north-east-by- east of Peterhead, and five minutes later stated that she...
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — 10th September, 1939. Information had been received that a yacht was in difficulties on the North Bank and a small motor launch aground. Both vessels were on a lee shore, with a strong...
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribed wrist-watch and a framed letter of thanks to twelve-year-old Michael Dornom, of Salcombe, Devon, who saved the life of a seaman in a south- westerly gale on the 17th of September, 1950. The seaman...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.18 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized off Leewick Sands. Two men were clinging to her. At 2.20 the life-boat Edward Z.
Dresden was...
PROPELLER LOST Walmer, Kent—During the afternoon of the 19th of January, 1948, a motor fishing vessel was drifting in the Downs, and a passing steamer signalled for help for her. At 3.40 the motor life- boat Charles Dibdin—Civil Service No....
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— During the afternoon of the 28th of February, 1948, a fishing boat was re- ported flying distress signals four and a half miles to the westward, and the motor life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched at...