On the 10th October the coastguard at Ballyquinton reported that a small fishing boat, of Portaferry, with one man on board, was in immediate danger inside the bar at Ballyquinton Point. A strong W.N.W.
gale was blowing,...
The No. 2 motor life-boat William and Kate John- ston put out at 11.15 A.M. on the 17th November as it had been reported that a boat was in difficulties abreast of Leasowe Castle. A very strong N.E.
breeze was blowing, with...
Aith, Shetland—22nd February. Early in the morning the telephone service having failed, the volunteer-in-charge of the Board of Trade rocket lifesaving apparatus at Walls travelled ten miles to bring news from Lerwick that flares had been...
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Eastbourne, Sussex.—On the morning of the 27th February a man reported that he had seen a vessel showing flares. She was the barge Davenport, of Ipswich, bound with a crew of three, and cargo of firebricks,...
Donaghadee, Co. Down.--At 7 P.M.
on the 24th October it was reported to the life-boat authorities tha t the motor boat Courageous, with eleven people on board,, who had gone to the Old Lighthouse Island to shoot rabbits,...
Torbay, Devonshire.-—At 6.5 A.M. on the 24th June, 1938, the Berry Head coastguard reported that a small motor boat with one man on board had run on to a submerged rock near Berry Head.
A gentle west breeze was blowing;...
Cullercoats, Northumberland.—Shortly before 6 A.M. on the 23rd August, 1938, the Seaton Sluice coastguard reported a trawler ashore just south of St.
Mary's Island. A gentle southerly breeze was blowing, with a slight...
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.10 in the evening of the 29th of November, 1949, the life-boat coxswain reported that the local fishing coble Rosemary was overdue. The life-boat Herbert Joy II was therefore launched at 6.20 in a smooth...
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.15 on the night of the 28th of December, 1949, the Troon pilots telephoned that the Irvine pilots had reported a steamer ashore on the north side of Irvine Bay.
At 6.40 the life-boat Sir David Rich-...
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At seven o'clock on the night of the 3rd of February, 1950, a local fisherman reported that the fishing boat Paragon, of Arklow, had gone on the rocks off Ireland's Eye.
At 7.13, therefore, the...