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On the 8th January one of the crew of the ketch Leader, of Bideford, went mad whilst the vessel was lying at anchor in St. Tudwells roads. The master of the ketch, having locked the man in his cabin, came ashore for assistance, but the man...
SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND The Lizard-Cadgwith, Cornwall.
At 12.32 a.m. on 25th November, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen two miles south-west of the Lizard light. The life-boat The Duke of Cornwall...
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
Coaster on fire A TELEPHONE CALL from Belfast Pilot Station to HM Coastguard at 1300 on Tuesday April 10 reported a fire aboard the Finnish coaster Inio of Helsinki about a mile and a half north east of Mew Island. A firefighting tug,...
ON 27th February, 1874, the life-boat St. George, at Stonehaven, Kincardine- shire, was launched in a gale to the help of the barque Grace Darling, of Blyth, which was flying signals of dis- tress. As the life-boat approached her the signals...
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ATTEMPT TO REFLOAT A STEAMER Flamborough, Yorkshire.—On the night of the 3rd of January, 1948,- the S.S. Lynn Trader went ashore about one mile south of Flamborough Head while on passage, in ballast, from King's Lynn to Blyth. She...
This Life-boat again did excellent ser- vice on the 21st October. Soon after dark on that day the schooner Auld 'Reekie, bound from Middlesborough to Barcelona with pitch, got ashore on the North Gare, at the entrance of the Biver Tees....
PEMBREY,CARMARTHENSHIRE.—At about 12.30 A.M. on the 14th October signals of distress were shown by the ss. Laura Fell, of London. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the S.W.. with thick rain and a very heavy sea. The signals were...
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE. — About 7.30 on the morning of the 23rd February a vessel was observed in distress on the east side of Sunderland Bank, Morecambe Bay. A strong W.S.W. gale was blowing, which steadily increased, accompanied by a very...