Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4.44 p.m. on I2th July, 1966, a yacht with one man on board was reported in difficulties four miles south-east of Beachy Head. A small coaster was standing by the boat. There was a gale from the south-west with a...
NEAR PORTLAND BILL Weymouth, Dorset. At 8.30 p.m. on 9th November, 1964, the coxswain was told by a shipping agency that the Dutch motor vessel Ramona was drifting in choppy seas and a moderate south-easterly wind five miles south of...
WAS IN DISTRESS May, Argyllshire. At 7.38 p.m. on l6th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the British ship Hebrides had reported a weak radio distress call giving a position south of Mull. This was soon confirmed...
CRUISER AND CREW OF SIX TOWED TO SAFETY Boulmer, Northumberland. At two minutes past three on the afternoon of Monday the 8th of July, 1963, the Tynemouth coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down and...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 10.45 on the night of the 25th of August, 1956, the Lloyds agent at Great Yarmouth telephoned that the S.S. Bravo had an urgent maternity case on board and asked if the life-boat would put out to...
Salcombe, Devon. At 11.30 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1958, the honorary secretary was asked by the shipping agent at Plymouth if the life- boat would launch to take spare machinery parts to the motor vessel Fedala of Rotterdam. The...
Amble, Northumberland - At 7.21 a.m. on i8th April, 1967, two cobles were reported at sea with conditions on the bar bad. At 7.58 the cobles were seen to be approaching the harbour, and the life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings five...
JANUARY 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.45 P.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a Steamer was ashore at Kingsdown. There was dense fog, a light S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 12.55 P.M. the motor lifeboat...
NOVEMBER 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 7.20 P.M. information was received from the naval base at Great Yarmouth, through the Cromer coastguard, that a boat was in distress half a mile E. by N. of Eccles, and the motor life-boat H. F. Bailey...
At 10.26 a.m. on 26th February, 1965, the coxswain was informed that conditions on the harbour bar were becoming very dangerous and that six local fishing boats were still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 10.30 in a...