Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was ashore at Cleats Point two hundred yards off shore.
The life-boat City of Glasgow II put...
Walmer, Kent.—At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 1st of September, 1955, the Deal coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the East Goodwin lightvessel that a yacht needed help about two miles west-by- south of the...
THE Herts Advertiser of St. Albans, writes that one of the honorary workers for the St. Albans branch, when she read the record of lives rescued by lifeboats during the first month of the war, gave to the branch one penny for each...
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At 2.35 P.M. on the 19th May a telephone message was received stating a yacht was in distress on the Buxey Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was promptly summoned, and the Life-boat, under motor power...
Margate. Kent.—21st May, 1938. A barge-yacht had carried away her boom, but she went on her way to Whitstable without help.—Rewards, £9 18s..
Ramsgate, Kent. •— At 6.40 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1950, the East Pier Watchman telephoned that the Dutch yacht Amy II, which had left Ramsgate an hour earlier, had burned flares and was apparently aground in Pegwell Bay. At 6...
On the 27th of September, 1951, the Dover life-boat rescued one man from a Dutch yacht. For a full account of this service, and the rewards, see page 283..
Early on the morning of the 6th June the small yacht Jubilee, of Fleetwood, with two men on board, sent up distress signals. She was in broken water about one and a half miles south of the life-boat station, and was dragging her anchor about...
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 10.40 on the morning of the 24th of May, 1958, the Holyhead coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was showing distress signals three quarters of a mile north of Point Lynas. At eleven o'clock the...
Soutbend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 7th of June, 1949, a message was received from the police station that two men were clinging to a yacht which had capsized three-quarters of a mile oft Chalkwell Bay, Westcliff, and the...