Two young girls playing in a dinghy on 19 May found themselves drifting into open water and jumped overboard to try to swim to shore.
A honeymooning couple spotted them struggling and called the Coastguard. Loch Ness...
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On the 27th of December, the Norwegian bark, William, of Tonsberg, ran ashore in thick and squally weather, near Camber, about three miles on the north side of Eye Harbour. The life-boat at No. 31 Tower, on the .opposite side of the harbour,...
On the 7th Feb- ruary, the ship, Iron Crown, went on the outer edge of the Goodwin Sands, about two miles S.W. of the Beacon. She fired signal- guns, but they were not heard from the shore. The wind was blowing strong from the S. W., and the...
Again, at daylight on the following morning, a brig was observed ashore on the west side of Blakeney Harbour- way. She was lying on her beam-ends.
The wind and sea were tremendous, but the life-boat was launched, and as...
NORTH SUNDERLAND and HOLY ISLAND.
—On the morning of the 27th January, five fishermen put off in a coble from North Sunderland, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks on the Fame Islands.
Two of the men...
Mr. Samuel Edward Saunders, of Cowes, who died on 17th December, at the age of seventy-seven, was very closely associated with the building of the present motor life-boat fleet, first as head of his own firm, Messrs. S....
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On the evening of the 9th October the steam drifter Excellent, of Buckie, bound to Yarmouth, with a crew of eleven, stranded outside the piers. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The drifter began to...
At 1.30 A.M. on the 14th April, during a whole E. by N. gale, the schooner Emma Louise, anchored in the road- stead, showed distress signals. The crew of the Life-boat Barak Austin were already assembled as the night was exceedingly wild ;...
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Children cut off by tide SWoth Scotland South Division Two children aged 12 and 5 years who had been cut off by the tide on a sandbank off Mawbray were rescued on 7 July 1991 by the prompt response of the Silloth lifeboat and John Boyle, a...