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Donora

Date: June 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 380

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 10.45 on the night of the 29th of March, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small vessel had been seen drifting towards Chale Bay. Her engines were not working and she was tiring red flares. The...

Ross Corr

Date: June 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 368

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of March, 1954, the Valentia radio station reported that the motor trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, which had a crew of five, had broken down four miles south-east of Blasket Island. At...

Les Deux Jeaunes

Date: December 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 378

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1956the coastguard telephoned that a French trawler was burning flares a mile and a quarter south of Lowestoft harbour. The life-boat Greater Lon- don (Civil Service No. 3)...

Dauntless

Date: December 1963

Volume: 37

Issue: 406

LOBSTER BOAT AGROUND ON SHEEP ROCK Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 10.26 on the morning of Wednesday the 28th of August, 1963, the Southend coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that the Portpatrick coastguard had reported the...

Cormorant

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 7th of June, 1949, a message was received from the police station that two men were clinging to a yacht which had capsized three-quarters of a mile oft Chalkwell Bay, Westcliff, and the...

Scotscraig

Date: November 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 114

LIZARD.—On the 15th June the Lifeboat proceeded to the aid of the brig Scotscraig, of Dundee, which had grounded directly below the Lizard lighthouses during a thick fog. After some hours' labour the vessel was extricated from her...

Janice

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.

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Favourite

Date: February 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 171

PORT EYNON.—The Life-boat A Daughter's Offering put off at 12.45 P.M. on the 17th November, while a moderate gale was blowing from the W.N.W., and saved a man from the boat belonging to the ketch Favourite, of Milford. In returning to...

None (4)

Date: December 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 402

TWO SWIMMERS TAKEN OFF ROCK Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 28th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two young men were in difficulties after swimming from Lands End to a rock known as the...

H.M. M.T.B.679

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

SEPTEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.

At 11.53 in the morning a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham, through the coastguard, asking for the life-boat crew to assemble. A strong north-west wind was...