Caister, Norfolk. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of July, 1959, the coastguard at Gorleston informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was making little headway in a very rough sea off North Scroby buoy. A later report from the...
Cidlercoats, Northumberland. At 8.37 on the morning of the 13th November, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a launch from the Trinity House vessel Triton was in difficulty and drifting. A strong south-easterly gale was blowing...
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 11.50 on the morning of the 28th of January, 1960, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that the local fishing boat Kindly Light was overdue from fishing and might be in...
AID FOR SKIN DIVERS Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 11.30 a.m. on I5th November, 1964, the lifeboat coxswain saw five skin divers enter the -water at the north landing and swim straight out to sea. The weather was deteriorating with a...
TOWED BY TUG Walmer, Kent. At 3.30 p.m. on 9th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he was watching the German motor vessel Widder, as she appeared to be in difficulties in the rough sea near Goodwin Fork. A local...
On Saturday June 13, at 0420, red flares were sighted east of the station by Ramsey Coastguard. It was an overcast morning with a gale force 8 blowingfrom the south. The sea was rough and it was an hour after low...
COVER PICTURE l ik bur-h. on the Suffolk coast, has always been famous for its lifeboatmen, the Cable family being particularly remembered. Then there are the Woods. And this quarter's cover is of Coxswain Reuben ood who was... - View image in PDF
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire - At 12.38 a.m. on 24th May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor launch Saro I, with three people on board, had broken down two miles south of Ramsey Island. The life-boat Joseph...
At 10.14 a.m. on 10th November, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Nonsuch, a 65-ton replica of a 17th-century Hudson Bay Company trading vessel, with a crew of seven, was in difficulties in heavy seas south west...
Fleetwood and Barrow, Lancashire - At 5.20 p.m. on i3th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the Fleetwood honorary secretary that a mayday call had been heard from a vessel south west of Lune buoy. This followed a report from Barrow that...