Caister, Norfolk.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 13th of February, 1955, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned to say the North Foreland radio station had reported that the motor trawler Saint-Pierre-Eglise, of Bou- logne, had...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 23rd of June, 1955, the Skerries Sailing Club reported that the 17-feet yacht Deirdre, of Rush, with a crew of two, had left Rush at seven o'clock for Skerries, but wasnow drifting...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 21st of October, 1949, news was received from Bor- deaux, three miles north of St. Peter Port, that a yacht, with a cabin cruiser in tow, was in difficulties, being carried astern by...
Dover, Kent.—At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of January, 1952, the Eastern Harbour Arm Signal Station reported that the tanker Sovac Radiant, of Panama, had gone aground in Fan Bay, and at 10.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...
Moelfre, Anglesey. — In the after- noon of the 21st of June, 1952, a strong wind had suddenly sprung up, and at 1.30 a sailing boat was seen to be drifting towards Dulas Island. The life-boat G.W. was launched at 2.15.
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AT twenty-five minutes past midnight •on the 26th January, 1954, a Washington aircraft of R.A.F. Bomber Command, bound for the Azores, wirelessed that she was in difficulties through icing and that her crew of seven were baling out. The...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning- of the 1 st of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Gunfleet Sands to the east-south-east of the coastguard station. At 11.25 the life-boat...
Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...
Kirkcudbright.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of December, 1956, a local resident informed the life-boat station that the tanker B.P.
Marketer was in trouble in very bad weather in Dhoon Bay. At 9.52 the...
Day of dedication NEWBIOGIN LIFEBOAT, the 37' Oakley Mary Joicey, launched on service twice on Sunday, August 1. At 1520 a service of dedication was in progress when members of the congregation noticed an inflatable dinghy being blown...