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The Coastguard received a message from the Gunfleet Lighthouse shortly after 10 A.M. on the 20th September, reporting that a steamer was ashore, with a tug in attendance.
A strong easterly breeze was blowing at the time...
A Tiger Moth Aeroplane
MARCH 7TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A Tiger Moth aeroplane had been reported down in the sea but nothing was found.- Rewards, £25 2s. 3d.
(See Llanerchymor. “ Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats,” page...
A Small Yacht
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 4th September the Needles Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a small yacht had capsized about one mile west of the Needles. The motor life-boat B.A .S.P.
was launched...
Speedwell
On receipt of a message on the morning of the 1st July, stating that a yacht was aground on the West Hoyle Bank, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 11.45, and on reaching the vessel found she was the Speedwell, cutter-rigged, of...
Happy Birthday!
The West Wight guild celebrated its 25th anniversary on 9 May 1996 with a successful buffet supper at the Royal Solent Yacht Club in Yarmouth.
At the event, which was attended by almost 100 people including the president,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gaff Cutter Jolie Brine
Help for Jolie Brise THE GAFF CUTTER Jolie Brine, on her way back from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, made to put in to Lowestoft for repairs after two days of gales during which, due to rigging failure, she...
Fishing Boats (1)
The fishing-boats put to sea in the early morning of the 21st April, but as there was a strong N.N.E. breeze and a heavy sea, the majority of them con- sidered it advisable to return, and did so. At about 10 A.M. two of the boats were...
An Exploit of Sir William Hillary
The rescue of 62 lives from the City of Glasgow on the night of 19th October, 1825, when Hillary himself was washed overboard, and had his chest crushed and six ribs broken. This was one of three services for each of which he was awarded the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point, throwing her crew of two into the water. A light south-westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Rose, of Lyne
on 28th Nov., saved 3 men from the schooner Rose, of Lynn..