— At 3.45 P.M. on the 26th December the Coxswain saw a schooner making for Swansea Harbour, and while doing so she took the ground on the east side of the east pier. A heavy N.W. gale was blowing at the time with a very heavy sea. The...
AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed Coxswain Hugh Jones of Beaumaris that the Greek tanker Essar I was drifting with engine trouble and with her engine room flooded one mile north of Point Lynas....
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— The schooner Ellie Park of Barrow, bound from the Dee to Red Bay in the north of Ireland encountered very heavy weather and when trying to make port had her sails blown away in a heavy squall.
The anchor was run out, but...
POHTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. At 11 o'clock on the night of the 6th Sept., 1884, the coxswain of the Life-boat, took up his station at the watch-house, so as to be in readiness should the ser- vices of the boat be required, as the wind was...
DUNBAR, HADDINGTONSHIRE.—During a westerly gale and moderate sea on the afternoon of the 18th March, the smack Young Helen, of Buckhaven, struck on the " Wildfire rock," bet ween North Berwick and Dunbar. On the information being...
On the afternoon of the 24th February a vessel was observed to run ashore close to Kings- down. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave were assembled, and with the assistance of the haul-off warp the boat was launched, and proceeded to...
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 3.50 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ada of Vlaardingen had grounded on Howick Rocks three miles north of Boulmer.
The life...
The Life-boat Henry Vernon was despatched at 8.30 A.M. on the 18th January to the assistance of the brigantine Maggie A., of Poole, which was sighted about that time making for the river. A strong gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and...
While a fresh S. breeze was blowing, accompanied by a choppy sea, on the morning of the 12th April, the Coastguard on duty observed a vessel stranded on the East Hoyle Bank. He at once communicated with the Coxswain of the- Life-boat Goard...
RAMSGATE.—The schooner Alnwick, of Beaumaris, bound from London for Workington with cement, ran for the harbour from the Downs for shelter while a strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, on the evening of the 5th October, but missed the entrance and...