GERMAN BOAT'S APPEAL Torbay, Devon. At 2 a.m. on 3rd July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a radio message received at Niton radio station from the German coastal vessel Hanseat stated that one of the Hanseat's...
APRIL 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A steamer was seen ashore on the North Goodwin Sands at about 7 P.M. and the motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 7.26 P.M. A westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and at times snow and hail...
Rough ride in race A SMALL BOAT was sighted off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, on September 10, 1972, with engine broken down and crew waving. This led to the Bridlington ILB being sent as low water on a spring tide at Flamborough prevented...
IT is NOW MORE than four years since the series of official RNLI commemorative covers was started. These colourful philatelic souvenirs of events in the life of the Institution were first issued in 1974 during the 150th anniversary year,...
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BALLYWALTER.—On the 20th October, the brigantine Wancoma, of Belfast, struck on Wallace's Bocks, about a mile south of the Bally waiter Life-boat station, at about 11.45 P.M., during a fresh gale. She was boarded by a Coastguard galley...
FlSHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Flares were shown by two vessels at anchor in Fishguard Bay while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather and snow, onthe llth February. Eockets were immediately fired at...
Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.45 A.M. on the 7th August information was received by telephone that the Great Yarmouth fishing boat Handy Billy was in distress about one and a half miles to the northward. A fresh E. by S. breeze was blowing and the...
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.34 on the afternoon of the 17th of July, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress thirteen and a half miles south-east-by-east of Portland. At 5.55 the life-boat Mil- burn, on temporary...
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 6.25 in the morning of the 7th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the keepers of the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse had reported a motor vessel, a mile north of the Mull, drifting east - north - eastwards...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.30. in the afternoon of Sunday the llth of July, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized half a mile off Winchelsea beach, and the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at...