At 12.30 A.M. on the 27th February the watchman re- ported that a vessel was ashore on the Inner Binks. A strong S.S.W. gale prevailed at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life-boat was promptly launched. As it was impossible to reach...
Shortly after 9.30 A.M. on 17th February, the Coastguard telephoned that a sea- plane had made a forced descent at sea, about a mile east of Foreland Lookout.
Signals for help were also seen. The Motor Life-boat Langham was...
INJURED MAN LANDED FROM DUTCH COASTER Dungeness, Kent. At 9.50 on the morning of Friday the 27th September, 1963, the honorary secretary telephoned the coxswain to say that the Dutch coaster Helvetia, loaded and bound for Exmouth, had an...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight 10th February. A motor barge had been flying a signal, but did not want any help.—Rewards, £18 Us. Qd..
JULY 30TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A man had been swept away by the tide while swimming off Dumpton Gap, but the life-boat could not find him, and he was washed ashore, still alive, near Broadstairs. - Rewards, £6 7s.
Torbay, Devon.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st of September, 1953, the local Lloyds agent rang up to say that the motor vessel Wolfsburg, of Hamburg, had an injured man on board and would arrive at Torbay at eleven...
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the 22nd December, 1886, the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, bound from Liverpool for Dundalk with a cargo of coal, was seen to run aground on the Causeway Kocks, near Puffin Island, during a strong breeze from the N.W....
US Coast-Guard Cutter on the International Ice Patrol. - View image in PDF
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The sorry sight when dawn broke on February 11, 1985.. - View image in PDF
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Racy Lady aground on the Middle Shingle Bank. Crew member Falcon Hawkins can be seen on the yacht's foredeck having swum across with a line.. - View image in PDF
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