TANKER FIRE VISIBLE FROM FIVE MILES AWAY Sixteen seamen taken off blazing oil tanker The collision which involved a tanker off the Humber estuary on 17 September 1989, and the subsequent fire, made front-page news throughout the country, and...
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Books Destroyer An anthology of first-hand accounts of the war at sea 1939-1945 Edited by Ian Hawkins Published by Conway Maritime Press ISBN 1844860086 paperback £9.99 Ian Hawkins cleverly blends excerpts from other books on the Second...
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—While the life-boat was taking the food and mails to Gmtness on the 1st of March, 1947, a doctor, whom she had taken to Quarff on the 28th of February, but who had been unable to land, telephoned that the patient there...
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BAD WEATHER CLIFF RESCUE WHEN, on 8th February, 1972, Mr J. J. Adams, honorary secretary, Hastings, Sussex, was told by the police at about 2.15 p.m. that a man had fallen over the cliff to the east of the harbour at a point known as...
On the 14th September the Hais- borough coastguard passed the news that a vessel about two miles south of Haisborough, and heading south, was on fire. She was the steamer Porthcavol. of Cardiff, bound with a cargo of esparto grass from North...
WINTERTON AND PALLING. — On the night of the 31st of January last, the s.s. Beresford, of West Hartlepool, bound from Middlesbrough for Bombay, with a general cargo, stranded on Hasborough Sand during a thick fog, a S.W. wind, and a heavy...
Again, on the 22nd April, during a strong E. wind, a vessel was observed on shore on the Hasborough Sands. The Lifeboat British Workman was launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the brig Jeanne d Arc, of Trouville, bound...
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 8th October, the schooner Haleswell, of Bridgwater, went ashore outside the Harry Furlongs Bocks, daring a fog. She was observed at 7 A.M., and a boat came ashore from her with two of her crew to ask for the...
On the 15th February, the same life-boat was taken to the assistance of the barque Eliza Caroline, of London, bound from Sunderland to Carthagena, with a cargo of guns, ammunition, and coke, which went ashore on the West Scroby Sands during...