CABIN CRUISER TOWED TO HARBOUR Troon, Ayrshire. At 10.30 on the night of the 14th August, 1962, the coxswain saw a flashing light about two miles north of Lady Isle. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken was launched at 10.45 in a light...
The brig Osborne, of Hartlepool, bound from London to Granton, in ballast, went ashore at Hadstone Scarr during a strong southerly wind, and in a heavy sea, on the 20th November. As soon as the vessel was observed to be in danger the...
KINGSTOWN.—On the 30th of September the brig Leonie, of Charlotte-Town, Nova Scotia, mistaking the Vanguard wreck-lightfor the Kish Light, ran into shoal-water off Bray, 7 miles south of Kingstown, where, after daylight, the master anchored...
At midnight on the 30th December the same life-boat put off again, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, in reply to signals of distress from the light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands.
While proceeding to the southward at the back of...
COXSWAIN WILLIAM CROWLEY, of the Fenit life-boat Hilton Briggs.
A member of the crew since 1928, Coxwain Crowley, who is 58, was appointed bowman in 1936, since which time the life-boat has been launched 58 times and has... - View image in PDF
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 11.50 P.M. on the 8th March the Kirkwall coastguard reported that distress signals had been seen off Mull Head, Papa Westray, and that the life-boat was wanted. The motor life-boat J.J.K.S.W. put out at 12.15 A.M. on...
On the 22nd February, this noble life- boat was again out on service, and saved the crew of 20 men from the ship Hannah Patterson, of Bergen, which parted from her cables, and drove on shore on Yarmouth Beach during a strong N.E....
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.49 p.m.
on 16th December, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that, following an explosion aboard her, the collier Thomas Goulden of London was making for Bridlington with a...
FEBRUARY 26TH - 27TH. - CAISTER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Caister that the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had just launched to a vessel on the east side of...
CEMAES, ANGLESEY.—At daybreak on the 5th of October a steam-tug entered the bay with a flag half-mast high and blowing her whistle. The Life-boat Ashtonian was launched, and was towed by the tug to the wreck of the ship Earl of Chatham, on...