Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 1.80 A.M. on the 12th February, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station from the pier-master that a vessel was showing red lights off Douglas Head.
A strong westerly gale was blowing...
NOVEMBER 17TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 10.20 A.M. the police asked for the services of the life-boat to land a badly wounded man from a steamer in the roadstead. The sea was rough, with a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 12th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had warned off a vessel in a dangerous position one and a half miles south by west of the Goodwin Lightvessel, and at...
— The s.s. Grosvenor, of Newcastle, bound light from Port Knockie to Sunderland, struck the rocks at Emmanuel Head early on the morning of the 20th Decem- ber. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The night was very dark,...
JUNE 11TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEM- BROKESHIRE. At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval base had reported a boat, from a vessel in distress, twelve miles north of St. David’s Head, and the motor life-boat Civil Service...
At 1.15 A.M. on 23rd November a telephone message was received stating that the lights of a vessel ashore off Ballyfrenis Point were seen. As this is a very dangerous part of the coast, the Motor Life-boat William and Mary proceeded to...
POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...
At 11.40 P.M. on the 26th December a message was received reporting that the Nore Light-vessel was firing signals of distress.
The Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 was launched without loss of time, and in the neighbourhood of...
Holy Island, Northumberland. •—• At 8.8 P.M. on the 22nd September, 1939, it was reported by the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress near the Plough Seat Rocks. A fresh N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. The...
Arbroath, Broughty Ferry, and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 10th of November, 1948, the Arbroath coastguard telephoned the Arbroath life-boat station that the S.S. El Ciervo, of London, had reported that she had picked...