On the 1st February the barque Lady West- moreland,of Newcastle, owing to the darkness and thick weather, grounded in a high sea on a dangerous shoal near the Church Bock, inside the Nab Light. As the tide rose she bumped heavily and started...
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1956 80,141 Notes of the Quarter WHEN the new Arbroath life-boat The Duke of...
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LLANDDULAS.—On the 30th July, at about 2 P.M., a disabled boat was discerned [ from this station, whilst it was blowing ; hard from the S.W. and a heavy sea j running. The Life-boat Henry Nixson \ No. 2, was launched as speedily as...
On the 15th April, at daylight, a sloop was observed to be on shore on the south end of the Goodwin Sands. As soon as there was sufficient water on the sands for a boat to cross them, the Walmer life-boat was launched, and proceeded under...
THE months of May and June were exceptionally exacting ones for the life-boat service. In May there were as many as 78 service launches, ten more than the previous record figure for the month of May. The number of service launches in June...
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On the 6th Januaty the brig Arefhuaa, of Myth, wfcnt ashore on the Gross Sand, near Grest Yarmouth. The Caister life-boat was immediately launched, and proceeded, under sail, to the rescue of her Crew, eight in number, whom she suc- ceeded...
Life-boat 70.001 at The Mumbles - At 2.5 a.m. on i6th September, 1966, the coastguard informed Staff Coxswain J. M.
Hunter that the coastal tanker Westerndale H., of Hull, was aground on the Wash Sands. The 70-feet...
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...
IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
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On the morning of the 5th January, the wind blowing fresh from E.S.E. with thick fog, guns were heard at in- tervals of five minutes, apparently from the North Sand Head and Gull light-ships; and the life-boat Bradford and the harbour...