AUGUST 13TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.
At about 1.30 in the afternoon the Langney Point coastguard telephoned that seven men working on the wreck of the S.S. Barnhill should be taken off at once.
A strong S.W....
OCT. 19TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. A message was received that a British steamer, S.S. Halizones, had been sunk by enemy action forty miles S.W. of the Bishop Lighthouse, but ten minutes after the life-boat was launched, news came that...
FEBRUARY 28TH . - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Swedish S.S. Storfors, of Uddeholm, had been sunk in collision, and her crew had taken to the boats. They were seen to overturn, but. only an overcoat was found. Later it was...
MAY 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 6.30 P.M. the coxswain was warned for service by the naval control as two ships had been attacked and were in distress. The sea was calm, with no wind.At 6.45 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater...
MARCH 28TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A telephone message was received at five in the afternoon from the naval base at Milford Haven that the S.S. Antonio had been in collision near Milford Buoy. A southsouth- west wind was...
(On the left is the Rev. T. N. Dunscombe, Hon. Secretary of the Hauxley Branch, and on the right Captain Young, the Amble Pilot.). - View image in PDF
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Capt. F. Rolli pointing out to a B.B.C. commentator the rock which his ship, the s.s. Isabo, struck on 27th October, 1927, at the Isles of Scilly. Miraculously, however, 32 of the crew of 38 were picked up despite high seas and fog.
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St. Mary's, Scilly Isles.—19th Octo- ber, 1939. A message was received that a British steamer, s.s. Halizones, had been sunk by enemy action forty miles S.W. of the Bishop Lighthouse, but ten minutes after the life-boat was launched,...
MAY 27TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
S.S. Registan, an auxiliary cruiser, was attacked and set on fire by four enemy aeroplanes, but the survivors were picked up by a motor boat from Sennen Cove and by...
FEBRUARY 20TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 4.55 A.M. the Tara coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore in Knockinelder Bay, and the motor life-boat Herbert John was launched at 6 A.M. A light south-easterly wind was blowing, with a...