(Left) Atlantic 21 scoop on port side of transom: sleeve is lowered and so valve is open. Hydraulics and associated linkage to starboard.. - View image in PDF
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Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.25 in the evening of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat, with three Royal Air Force cadets on board, was in difficulties about half a mile to the eastward of Salt Island Point,...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At i .50 p.m.
on 25th October, 1966, a rowing boat, with two young men aboard, was reported overdue from a fishing trip. The IRB was launched shortly afterwards. It was five hours after high water....
On the even- ing of the 12th September fourteen of the fishing-boats belonging to Whitby went out to fish. Later the wind fresh- ened considerably from N.N.E. and bad weather followed, causing them to make for port again. About midnight,...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.27 A.M. on the 16th September, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that the Brake Light-vessel had reported that the barge Oceanic, which was near her, had a man on board dangerously ill, and that the skipper wanted to get...
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—-It was reported that a vessel was ashore and showing signals of distress, on the north side of Lune at midnight on the 28th October, during a strong N.W. breeze. 'The Child of Hale Life-boat promptly went to her...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 25th March the coastguard reported that a vessel north of the harbour was blowing for help. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and there...
On the 3rd April when the fishing fleet were return- ing from fishing a nasty cross sea was running at the harbour entrance, caused by a strong easterly breeze which had been blowing, and the broken sea on the bar together with the ebb tide...
At 1 P.M. on the 4th December Coxswain Green observed a schooner in distress off Great Yar- mouth, she having parted from her anchors during a strong S.S.W. gale.
The Life-boat Hugh Taylor was launched and proceeded to the...
The steam drifter Friendly Star, of Lowestoft, stranded on the North Bank on 14th November, while bound for Yarmouth from the fishing grounds in a dense fog with a light W.S.W. wind. Information that the vessel was burning flares for help...