— On the morning of the llth January a man was injured on board the local fishing boat Gloamin'. There was not suffi- cient water for the boat to get into harbour and she made distress signals.
The crew of the...
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 3 P.M. on the 9th January, during a whole W.N.W.
gale, with a very rough sea, the s.s.
Co-operator, of Fenit, broke her moorings.
She drifted towards dangerous rocks...
JANUARY 31ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.30 in the evening, the coastguard reported a boat showing distress signals a mile and a half north of Peterhead, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
A dozen of hearts! and a dozen of hands ! I And the courage of death!—'tis a Yorkshire boast; It was all they asked one November noon When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands, And...
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WHAT English boy or girl—and might we not add man or woman ?—does not take an interest in "...
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It’s a crisp, cold January morning off the south Devon coast,...
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— On the evening of the 26th January, the coast- guard reported that a vessel was on fire about seven miles east of the Mull of Galloway. A moderate north gale was blowing, with a moderate to rough sea, and the weather was very...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 9.25 on the night of the 30th of September, 1953, a woman told the coxswain that a bright light was flashing in the sea three miles north-east of Mallaig, and at 9.40 the life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put to sea....