Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.39 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a whaler with a crew of six sea cadets was being carried by the ebb tide on to a lee shore off...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 3.36 on the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dismasted sailing boat had been reported off Bramble buoy andthat her crew of two were asking for help. The...
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 8.30 p.m.
on 8th June, 1967, it was seen that peopleon board a cabin cruiser drifting off Capstone Hill were signalling for assistance.
The life-boat Lloyd's II was launched at 9...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5 p.m.
on 29th August, 1965, the acting second coxswain heard a distress message being passed to Niton radio station from the yacht Dream of Holland saying that a capsized dinghy with two people...
TOW FOR BOAT WITH ANGLERS ABOARD Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At' 3.20 on the afternoon of the 23rd July, 1962, the master of the mail steamer St.
Andrew informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Sari Marts had...
Selsey, Sussex - At 1.54 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, it was learned that during a sudden storm a boat had capsized and two men were in the water off Selsey Bill and other small boats were in difficulties.
The life-boat...
7th June. A vessel had stranded on the Barber Sands, but she got off and went on her way.— Rewards, £29 5s..
Night search EXMOUTH DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY was informed by HM Coastguard at 0117 on Wednesday, July 28, that a Mirror Class dinghy, with a crew of two, was long overdue. In good visibility and with a gentle north-westerly breeze and...
FRASERBURGH.—The schooner Breeze, of and from Sunderland, bound for Dingwall with a cargo of coal, was observed to be in danger in Fraserburgh bay while a N.W. gale was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea on the 3rd February. The Life-boat...
Marine artist Patrick Donovan has produced this evocative watercoiour of Agnes Cross picking up survivors off Dover during the Dunkirk evacuation He writes: 'Mr Hills tells me that she did this on a number of occasions during the period... - View image in PDF
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