LANDING AN INJURED MAN Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 1st of June, 1947, a wireless message came from the S.S.
Fort Ellice that she wished to land a man with a broken leg and other injuries. The case was...
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 1.19 p.m. on 1st November, 1969, it was learnt that the motor boat Sonia was in difficulties about two miles south east by east of Tyne piers. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 1.26 in a gale force west...
In continuation of the description of the Anglesea Life-boat stations, we have now to give an account of Rhoscolyn, Penmon, Llanddwyn, aud Moelfre. Before doing so, however, we have to correct a mistake as to the Holyhead boat, which, in...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.40 in the morning, on the 1st of December, 1950, the pier signal station sent a message that the motor tanker Guides- man, of London, was ashore off Scar's Elbow Buoy, near Canvey Island. At 5.25 the...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.10 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1959, tne coastguard told the honorary sec- retary of a message received from the police that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized off Butlin's holiday camp. The life-boat...
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—During the night of the 28th January the medical officer for Caithness telephoned that Wick Radio had received a message from a trawler that when passing Stroma Island, in the Pentland Firth, she had seen Morse...
FISHING BOAT MISSING FOR FOUR DAYS Skegness, Lincolnshire.—The fishing- smack Virginia, of Boston, Lincoln- shire, with a crew of three, which had gone to sea on January 1st, 1947, had not returned. Aeroplanes searched for her and radar was...