During a strong gale from the N.W., on the 11th November, the schooner Margaret Caldwell, of Port- rush, was at anchor in the Skerries Roads, when the barque Convert, of Londonderry, running for the same anchorage, got foul of her, and...
Moelfre, Anglesey. — In the after- noon of the 21st of June, 1952, a strong wind had suddenly sprung up, and at 1.30 a sailing boat was seen to be drifting towards Dulas Island. The life-boat G.W. was launched at 2.15.
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 7.27 on the morning of the 17th of January,1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore on Frisland Rocks. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin put out at 7.45. There was a...
Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...
REDCAR.—On the 2 2nd January the fishing-smack Temperance Star, of Redcar, was driven near the rocks during a strong gale from N.N.E., accompanied by a rough sea. On observing her perilous position, the Life-boat Burton-on- Trent was...