Holy Island, Northumberland.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 27th of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the nine-ton auxiliary yacht Mermaid, of Poole, was drifting towards the Ridge, west of Holy Island Harbour, and at 2.16 the...
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During a whole W.S.W. gale on the night of the 20th February signals of distress were observed fr«m a vessel in.
the St. Tudwell's Eoads. Throughout the day it had been seen that the vessels there had been having...
Environmental disaster prevented Bronze medal for Thurso Coxswain and awards to Thurso and Longhope crews Thurso lifeboat Coxswain William Farquhar has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for bravery for his part in an incident...
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The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...
On the 14th Nov. the Ramsgate Life- boat put off, during a fresh gale from the E., to the assistance of a vessel which had gone ashore on the Kentish Knock. After some trouble, owing to the very heavy sea, the Life-boat reached the vessel,...
THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—While a whole gale from W.N.W. was raging, accompanied by a very heavy sea and rain, on the night of the 5th January, 1902, signals of distress were observed from the schooners Emma Louise and Elizabeth Miller, both...
AT 8.30 on the evening of the 21st of January, 1955, Mr. Jack Hicks, a Scilly Isles pilot of St. Agnes, tele- phoned the honorary secretary of the St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat station, Mr. Trevellick Moyle, to say he had heard the...
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On the 6th February, two fishing-cobles, which had put to sea from this place to pursue their ordinary avocations, were overtaken by a heavy gale, and ran back to the Haven, but were unable to enter, on ac- count of the heavy seas which...
During a whole N.N.W. gale on the 8th January a vessel was sighted dismasted and apparently at anchor about eight miles off Trevose Head. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were summoned, and in tow of the Institution's tug...