Exmouth, Devon.—At 8.29 in the evening of the 8th of October, 1948, the coastguard reported a message from the Budleigh Salterton police that a yacht was about a hundred yards off Budleigh Salterton beach in a heavy swell, and the motor life...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.
A strong westerly breeze was blowing at...
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Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
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NOVEMBER MEETING WALMER, KENT. Shortly after 6 in the evening of the 17th August, 1941, a British Beaufort bomber crashed into the sea between Kingsdown and Walmer, some 400 yards off shore. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea....
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Fourteen rescued A TRAWLER, Erlo Hills, ashore north west of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyllshire, was reported by Clyde Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Campbeltown lifeboat station at 0655 on Friday October 2, 1981. Maroons were fired...
OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched 42 times and rescued 16 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO SHETLAND ISLAND Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at...
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Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...
TORQUAY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October it was reported that the fishing smack Black Cat, of Paignton, was hanging on to her nets, in great danger,' off that place, having been in that positionsince the commencement of the gale, which...
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—About 8 A.M.
on the 27th February a telephone message was received stating that a steamer was blowing a succession of short blasts from a foghorn and immediately afterwards another message an-ived...