FEBRUARY MEETING PORT WEMYSS, ISLAY. The S.S. Agate, laden with coal and bound from Poole to Belfast, lost touch with her convoy during thick weather and ran ashore at Carn Point on the west coast of Islay at 4.30 in the morning of the 30th...
Category: Services
Lifeboats at Dunkirk With reference to the letter in the Summer issue regarding the Poole lifeboat Thomas Kirk Wright and her work during the Dunkirk evacuation in May/June 1940.
A total of 19 RNLI lifeboats took part in...
Category: Correspondence
Whitehills, Banffshire, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—20th March, 1939. A motor salmon-coble was reported overdue, but she was picked up and towed to safety by a motor boat.—Rewards: Whitehills, £9 7s. 9d; Fraserburgh, £7 6s. 6d....
Margate, Kent.—13th July, 1939.
All aeroplane was reported as having come down in the sea a few miles out, but though the life-boat searched over a wide area she could find nothing.— Rewards, £6 4*..
Helvick Head (Dungarvan Bay), Co.
Waterford. — 4th September, 1939.
What looked like a burning aeroplane was reported to have been seen to drop into the sea but nothing was found.— No rewards; launch...
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—27th October, 1939. A trawler was reported to be sounding her siren as if in distress, but two trawlers which the life-boat found were neither of them in need of help.—Rewards, £12 15s..
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—27th September. A motorist had reported that he had seen an aeroplane crash into th« sea, but nothing could be found.
—Rewards, Dungeness, £16 11s. 6d. • Dover, Partly permanent paid...
Hoylake, Cheshire.—13th March, 1938.
A motor boat had been reported during the evening to be in a dangerous position off Hilbre, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £25 14s. Qd..
St. Helier, Jersey.—28th April, 1938.
Two aeroplanes had been reported to have come down in the sea, but a search in which another plane joined revealed nothing. The honorary secretary of the station and district inspector...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—3rd August, 1938. A boat from H.M.S. Boreas, acting as escort to the Royal Yacht which had their Majesties the King and Queen on board, had been reported adrift, but it was learned...