DEC. 1ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 8.45 A.M. the Lytham secondcoxswain reported a vessel ashore by Peet’s Light, south of the 12th Mile Beacon. A S.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Sinking fishing boat NITON RADIO advised Solent Coastguard at 2031 on Saturday December30, 1978, that the 42ft fishing vessel New Venture reported to be midway between Nab Tower and Hayling Island had sent a message by VHP that she was...
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS , SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
Lifeboat Services August, September and October 1988 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Anin ON 1050: October 20 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 2, 27 and 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 8, 20. 29, September 3,...
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Girvan, Ayrshire, and Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—About five o'clock on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard tele- phoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Margareta, of Lovisa, Finland, had run...
Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...
On the morning of 8th April messages were received from the Coastguard and Police that a fishing boat was in distress in the Rock Channel. The No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Anne Miles left her moorings at 11.45 A.M. in a moderate N.W....
A LONG SEARCH Margate, Kent, and Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex.—At 2.50 in the after- noon of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Ameri- can steamer John Lefarge had reported that she had collided with and sunk a fishing...
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1957, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Trimingham. At 5.32 the no. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched in a slight sea. There...
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the... - View image in PDF
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