AT 11.30 on the morning of the 28th August, 1919, during a strong southerly gale with a very heavy sea and thick rain, the Bembridge Life-boat was launched to the help of an American steamer, the s.s. Wakulla, of Los Angeles, which had...
The launching of an appeal for funds for a prototype 47ft fast slipway lifeboat to be named City of London was held at Fishmongers' Hall by the River Thames on the evening of November 25, 1980. Welcoming the guests, Lord Inchcape,...
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TORBAY, on the night of Wednesday the 10th of January last, was visited by one of the most terrific gales ever remembered there, and which strewed the western coasts of England with many wrecks. The loss of life was also very great. The Bay...
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on 18th Nov., saved 6 men from the schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester..
on 9th Feb., saved 10 men from the brig Roman Empress, of Shields..
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.20 P.M. on the 13th July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small motor yacht about two miles S.E. of the look-out appeared to be flying an ensign upsidedown, thus making a signal of distress.
A...
Lerwick, Shetlands - At 10.58 p.m.
on 8th May, 1967, it was reported that the motor fishing vessel Day Dawn of Lerwick had broken down off Bard Head, Bressay, and was in danger of being driven on to the rocks. The life-boat...
AUGUST 30TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.
About 9.15 at night the coastguard reported flares a mile east of St.
Anthony. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The motor life-boat...
The schooner Brenton, of Fowey, was observed with signals of distress flying, on the Skull Martin Rock, near Ballywalter, on the 4th December. The wind was blow- ing very fresh from N. to N.E., and a heavy sea was running at the time, render...
On the 22nd October, during foggy weather, the ship Miahiels Loos, of Antwerp, was stranded abreast of No. 35 Martello Tower. The Solicitors' and Proctors' life-boat Storm Sprite, stationed at Winchelsea, went off and remained by the...