Longhope, Orkneys 16th March.
A trawler was wrecked at Hoy Island, but the Stromness life-boat rescued the crew.—Rewards, £11 6s. 6d.
(An account of the rescue is on the next page.).
Henry Britton, ex-Coxswain at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex; Robert Burgoo, ex-Coxswain at Berwick-on-Tweed; Mr. W. Fortescue BarraJt, Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund; the Lord Brownlow and Mr. Henry Fargus, members of the...
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NORTH DEAL. — The Life-boat Mary Somermlle was called out by signals fired by the Gull Light-vessel in a strong breeze to a moderate gale and a heavy sea at about 9 on the morning of the 2nd August, and proceeded to the...
DISCOVERING LIFE-BOATS IN ENGLAND AND WALES by E. W. Middleton This fascinating book has an entry for each life-boat station, describing the boat, the station's location, its history and some of the heroic events from its...
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Falmouth, Cornwall. — At 9.15 on the night of the 9th of September, 1951, the St. Anthony coastguard telephoned that a yacht three miles south-east-by-south of St. Anthony Point was flying a flag and using only one of her sails. At 9.30 the...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.57 on the morning of the 17th of March, 1957, a message was received from a fisher- man that a vessel was ashore at Great- stone. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 8.25 in a smooth sea. There was a...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—When the life- boat reached harbour at 8.15 on the morning of the 7th of May, 1949, with the fishing-boat Prosperity and the yacht Red Rover, she was told by the coastguard that three other local fishing boats were...
Barmouth, Merionethshire - At 2.3 a.m. on 5th October, 1968, the coastguard reported that the ketch Garland Stone was aground on the causeway north of Barmouth and was leaking badly. The life-boat The Chieftain was launched at 2.19. It was...
At 6.35 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Icelandic vessel Magnus IV had engine trouble and required a tow.
The life-boat The Duchess of Kent was launched at 6.56 in a fresh...
SEPTEMBER 10TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
At 1.10 in the afternoon the coastguard reported to the Girvan lifeboat station that a naval pinnace was flying a distress signal off Ballantrae. The...