The motor Life-boat General Farrell was launched on the 5th August in response to a telephone message from the Smalls Lighthouse, stating that the crew of the schooner Pearl were taking refuge in the Lighthouse, and wanted to be landed. The...
At 7.15 A.M. on the 29th October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore about a mile north of Rattray Head. The crew of the No. 2 Motor Life-boat Alexander TullvcJt were at once summoned and the boat proceeded with all possible...
YOUGHAL.—The Chief Officer of Coastguard having reported that a steamer, bearing about fourteen miles E. of Youghal, appeared to be in distress, on the 28th March, the Life-boat Mary Luckombe was launched at noon and proceeded under sail to...
CAMPBELTOWN.—On the 1st February the wind, which had been blowing strongly all day from W., increased to a strong gale towards the evening, at times blowing with hurricane force. At about 9 P.M. the coxswain of the Life-boat reported that a...
HARWICH.—It having been reported by the crew of a smack that a vessel was ashore on the Cork Sands, the new steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland proceeded to sea at 12.30 A.M., on the 8th October, taking in tow the reserve Life-boat...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 1.40 A.M. on the 20th January the coastguard reported that a steamer appeared to be ashore three miles N.E.
of Britannia Pier. A gentle...
Cromarty.—During the morning of the 21st December, 1937, the Helmsdale coastguard reported that they were trying to locate two small Helmsdale fishing boats, Linnet and Girl Pat, which had left Loch Fleet for Helmsdale at about 4 P.M. the...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At about 9.15 A.M.
on the 18th February, 1938, the coastguard reported a smack aground on the Inner Newcombe Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross was away within five minutes. A moderate N.E. by E...
IN 1937 the coastguard organization took action in 314 cases in which vessels or aircraft were either observed or reported to be in distress, in difficul- ties, or overdue off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern...
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On the night of the 13th August the coast watcher at Babbacombe reported that a speed-boat was in difficulties, close to the shore, between Babbacombe and Anstey's Cove, Torquay. The east wind was very right, but a very strong easterly...