Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—31st August, 1939. A small sailing yacht with two men on board had broken adrift and was being carried out to sea in a dense fog, but when the motor life-boat found her she was safely at anchor and did not need...
A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.24 in the afternoon, on the 9th of April, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Littlestone, tipping two people into the sea. At 4.38 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.16 p.m. on 9th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht was in danger of being driven ashore in Seaford Bay.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.25 in a moderate to fresh...
Margaret Mitchell, wife of a Fleet branch committee member, leaves raising money to her cat, Perdita. Instead of selling Perdita's kittens, Mrs Mitchell asks new owners to make a donation to the RNLI.
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Barrow, Lancashire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th October, 1961, a life-boat shore helper informed the coxswain that a sailing dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Foulney Island. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was...
JAN. 3RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the morning the sailing boat Roustabout, of Lowestoft, left harbour with a crew of four. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain, who had gone to the coastguard lookout, saw the boat...
APRIL 29TH. - POOLBEG, CO. DUBLIN.
At 6.50 in the evening a message was received from the harbour master at Dun Laoghaire that a small sailing boat off Poolbeg needed help. A strong north-west breeze was blowing, with a...
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 11.45 on the night of the 26th of August, 1953, the Civic Guard reported that two youths and an elderly man had put out in a sailing boat, but had not returned. At midnight the life-boat H. F. Bailey...
Caister, Norfolk.—On the 3rd January seven young men put out in the sailing boat Seabird on a trip to the steamer Crackshot, which had stranded off Caister two days earlier. A fresh west wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The Seabird got...