A fine action study of the Iste of Wight life-boat towing in the yacht Alchemist off the Needles on 26th March, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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At 4.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was ashore on the sand. Rockets were fired to assemble the crew, and within thirteen minutes the Life-boat James Stevens No....
THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...
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SEPTEMBER 14TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the afternoon a man and a woman in a rowing boat from Benllech were rarried out to sea by the tide and a strong S.W. wind, and the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 3.30 P.M....
Ramsgate, Kent.—26th September, 1938. A small boat had got into difficulties off the foreshore, but managed to make a safe landing.—Rewards, £8 Is. 6d..
Holyhead, Anglesey. — 23rd July, 1939. A small yacht had gone agroundin a dangerous position, but she refloated with the rising tide.—Rewards, £7 10s..
21st September. A fishing boat was out in bad weather, and a search was made for her, but in the meantime she had made harbour.—Rewards, £2 16s..
14th Sep- tember. A yacht had appeared to be flying a signal of distress, but was found to be at anchor with clothing hoisted in the-rigging.—Rewards, £6 13s..
19th November.
A steamer had burned flares, but it was found that what she wanted was only a tug.—Rewards, £51 17s. 6d..
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—19th August. A motor launch had been reported in difficulties, but a steamer took her in tow.—Rewards, £4 19s..