LIFE-BOAT OUT FOR 17 HOURS Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 11.10 on the evening of Thursday the 29th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the harbour master at Galway that the 35-foot launch St. Patrick of...
CAVE SNATCH NEWS was received at 7.50 p.m. on 22nd September, 1971, that a small boat had been sighted floating close to the cliffs near Bempton.
It appeared to be unmanned. The maroons were fired five minutes later, and at...
JULY 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a...
Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...
Trading Stamps Appeal May I say a big thank you to all the readers who have sent me trading stamps? I have at last raised £10,000 and am so grateful for all the help and encouragement I have received.
I started in a...
Category: Correspondence
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, and Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. At 7.34 on the evening of the llth of May, 1958, the Superintendent of the Irish Coast Life-Saving Service passed on to the acting honorary secretary at Rosslare Harbour a message...
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 25th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a man had reported that a yacht was drifting three miles east-north-east of Filey Brigg Buoy. At 10.55 the life-boat The Isa & Penryn...
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...
NEW BRIGHTON.—The steam Life-boat Queen left her moorings at 6.50 P.M. on the 2nd January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., with squalls and a very heavy sea, in response to signals of distress which had been shown in the direction...
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.48 in the evening of the 6th of September, 1949, the East pier shore attendant tele- phoned that a yacht was on the Brake Sands and the life-boat Mary Scott, on. temporary duty at the station, left her moorings at 5.51...