Walmer, Kent.—At 9.42 on the night of the 24th of June, 1954, a message was received that a yacht had broken down near the South Goodwin light- vessel. At 9.45 the life-boat Charles Dibdin, Civil Service No. 2 waslaunched. The sea was...
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 20th of August, 1957, the Cromer coastguard reported that a vessel, which had broken down near Blakeney Bell buoy, was firing rockets and flying a distress signal. At 11.35 the life-boat...
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 6.35 in the morning of the 25th of October, 1948, the Wick Coastguard telephoned that the s.s. Cantick Head, of Leith, was driving ashore in Thurso bay, and at 7.10 the motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched. A...
APRIL 7TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.37 A.M. , the coastguard reported that a coble was in difficulties off Ulrome, eight miles south of Bridlington, and that she had put up a sail which had been blown away. The...
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
Scotland South Division Breeches buoy rescue TWO PEOPLE IN DANGER, stranded on a rock at the mouth of the River Dee, were reported to the deputy launching authority of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station by Ardrossan Coastguard at 1321 on Sunday,...
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Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the coastguard tele- phoned that a motor vessel, which was.
towing a fifty-feet yacht, was thought to have ropes entangled in...
Torbay, Devon.—At 11.40 on the night of the 14th of July, 1957, the Berry Head coastguard telephoned to say a doctor had asked if the life-boat would put out to bring ashore a man who had fallen down a cliff at Shankham Point, as it would be...
At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was running; so...
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were shown by the steam-tug Erin, of Wexford, at 5.30 P.M., on the 8th March. The Ethel Eveleen Life-boat proceeded to her assistance and found that her engines had broken down, and that she was in a very...