Ramsgate, Kent. — At 4.28 in the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had wirelessed that a vessel appeared to be aground three miles south by west of the lightvessel, and at 4...
DECEMBER 13TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During a northwesterly gale, with a very rough sea, the S.S.
Empire Tigaven and the S.S. Cormoat came into collision about four miles off Flamborough.
A...
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
On the 29th August the s.s. Sir William Steplienson, of Newcastle, whilst bound for London with a general cargo, struck a mine in the Yarmouth Roads, and two men were killed by the explosion. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was promptly...
AUGUST 18TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. The trawler Newlands arrived with sixteen survivors of the S.S. Sylvafield, of Newcastle, an oil tanker, which had been torpedoed and sunk off Barra Head on the night of the 15th August. The vessel had...
APPLEDORE.—A little before midnight on the 7th October signals were observed and a steam-whistle was heard in the bay, but for some time the signals ceased.
About 2 o'clock on the following morning they were resumed,...
DECEMBER 6TH. - CLOVELLY. DEVON.
The S.S. Mousse le Moyec, of Lorient, was in distress, and the life-boat was launched with the help of all the women of the village, but she could not go beyond the race at Hartland Point in...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 6.17 A.M.
on the 12th December the coastguard reported that distress flares had been seen four or five miles N.E. of Castle Hill. A moderate N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and it was very...
NOVEMBER 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 7.25 at night a message was received from the Berry Head coastguard that the S.S.
Eminence, of Rochester, had anchored in Torbay. She had a man on board with an injured...