Margate, Kent. At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a body had been reported floating near the West Pan Sand buoy and a request was made for the life-boat to recover it....
JANUARY 9TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK, A N D S K E G N E S S L I N C O L N S H I R E .
Information was received at Wells from the coastguard at about 4.48 PM. that a tug was showing flares off Scolt Head. A strong northerly wind...
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—On the morning of the 17th November, 1937, the Lynn Well Lightship reported, through Cromer and the local coastguard, that a barge seemed to be in distress about four miles away. An easterly gale was blowing, with a...
MAY 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. Shortly after five in the morning information was received through the coastguard that the South Goodwin Lightship had reported a collision.
The sea was smooth, but there was a thick fog, and the...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Atlantic Sea, of Panama, had reported that a member of her crew had been seriously injured by a falling derrick...
NORTH DEAL, KINGSDOWNE, BROADSTAIRS and RAMSGATE.—On the 8th April the s.s. Langdon, of London, bound fromBlyth for Dartmouth, with a cargo of coal, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands, in a dangerous position, during a dense fog, at about 4...
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 1.10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, a steamer was reported ashore on the Plough Reef, one mile east of Holy Island. The weather was fine but cold, with a W.N.W. breeze and a choppy sea. The motor life-boat...
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 267, 283, and 304, the following launches on service were made during the months June to August, 1967, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
At 5.40 A.M. on the 21st December, during smooth but foggy weather, a new torpedo destroyer named the Beaver stranded about 1J miles south of Hasborough Lighthouse. The vessel had only re- cently been launched and was on her way to...
On 20 March newly weds Anthony and Cherie Summers of Holyhead got the surprise of their life when they left the church to find that their traditional Rolls Royce had been replaced by Trearddur Bay lifeboat, Dorothy Selina.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs