APRIL 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. A steamer was seen ashore on the North Goodwin Sands at about 7 P.M. and the motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 7.26 P.M. A westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and at times snow and hail...
Boulmer, Northumberland. — Early on the morning of the 20th March the lights of a vessel were seen through the haze to the S.E. of Boulmer. Shortly afterwards she struck the rocks at Boulmer Steel, and made signals of distress. A freshening...
FEBRUARY 19TH - TYNEMOUTH , NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat station received a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that a vessel had been mined east of the North Pier, and the motor life-boat John Pyemont was launched...
OCT. 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. - At about 11.10 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be in distress a mile S.E. of the station. The report was confirmed, and the No. 2 motor life-boat, Harriot Dixon, was launched by...
MAY 7TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 7.15 A.M. the coastguard reported that a keel boat three miles off was showing a distress signal. She was the Prosperity, of Whitby, with a crew of five. A light westerly wind was blowing and the sea was...
TYNEMOUTH.—At about 12.45 P.M. on the 25th May alarm guns were fired from the Spanish Battery indicating a vessel in distress. Crowds of people at once rushed to places from which the harbour could be seen, and observed that a steamer was...
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On the 1st Jan- uary, 1867, the brig .Chase, of Shields, was observed near this place with signals of distress flying. The life-boat Parses was conveyed along shore, and launched abreast of the vessel, which had grounded upon Horsey Beach....
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.38 on the night of the 16th of March, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard passed on a report from the Trinity House Superintendent that a member of the crew of the Newarp lightvessel had been injured...
telephone message, stating that a vessel was ashore near Thorpness, was received at 7.50 A.M. on the 7th January, and the No. 2 Life-boat Edward G. Dresden was immediately despatched to her assistance.
There was a moderate...