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Forty-Two Men Were Saved

Date: March 1955

Volume: 34

Issue: 371

EARLY on the morning of the 27th of November, 1954, the 20,125-ton Liberian tanker World Concord, which was in ballast and bound from Liverpool to Syria, broke in two during storms of exceptional violence in the Irish Sea.

Category: Services

The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink

Date: Spring 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 484

Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...

Soldier Prince

Date: February 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 235

HOTLAKE, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—On the afternoon of the 18th August the steamer Soldier Prince, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, belonging to the Prince Line and bound to Manchester, stranded on the Askew Spit. There was a strong N.W. breeze...

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: February 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 99

SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...

Category: Articles

Tranmere

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

SELSEY.—The barque Tranmere, of Liverpool, bound from Hull to Cardiff in ballast, brought up off Selsey Bill, during a gale of wind from the 8. and in a very heavy sea, at about noon on the 2nd September.

A fisherman's...

Elizabeth Anne and a Schooner

Date: August 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 133

MOELFBE, ANGLESEY.—On the 12th February a very heavy gale from the S.

by W. was experienced, and a large fleet of steamers and sailing craft took refuge in the bay. The storm increased in fury, and the schooner Elizabeth...

Teresa

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

At 5 P.M. on the 15th October information was received from the coastguard that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a distress signal. The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 5.20 P.M., and found the...

Ceres

Date: February 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 107

PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. On the 22nd November, at about 8 P.M., signals of distress were seen off Porthoustock. The Life-boat Mary Ann Story was immediately launched and proceeded to the wreck, reaching the Manacles Rocks at about 8.30. The...

Lyra

Date: November 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 170

HAUXLEY.—The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 14th February to the assistance of the fishing coble Lyra, of Newbiggin, which was in distress in a gale from the W.S.W.

and a heavy sea. The boat...

The S.S. Birling

Date: November 1889

Volume: 14

Issue: 154

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The 'Husband Life-boat was launched at 7 A.M. on the 9th March, during a whole gale of wind and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the Cross Sand Light-vessel. The boat proceeded in a S.S.E. direction, and...