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On the morning of the 25th February the local motor fishing boat Tony put to sea, with the life-boat coxswain and two other men on board. Later in the day the weather turned rough, and the second coxswain made enquiries for the boat. The...

MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...

DECEMBER 17TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 9.12 in the morning a message was received from the naval authorities that a vessel was on the barrage boom.

A southerly gale was blowing and the sea was broken and confused. At...

Escorted yacht in gale A FORCE 8 west-north-westerly gale was blowing at midday on Thursday September 5, 1985, when the yacht, Sea Mirage, was on passage from Port St Mary on the Isle of Man, heading for Heswell in the Dee...

Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the yacht Overlord, of Southampton, was in difficulties eight and a half miles south-west of...

ON the night of 20th January, 1937, the life-boat coxswain at Broughty Ferry, (Dundee), heard on his wireless that the Abertay lightship, which lies off Buddon Ness, six miles away, was asking that the Broughty Ferry life- boat should go out...