CHANNEL SEARCH It was learnt at 4.15 a.m. on 11th January, 1971, that an explosion had taken place at sea about one and a half miles west of the Varne Bank and that a tug was making for the spot. It was later established that the tanker...
The most distressing calamities in connection with this disastrous storm of the 10th. Febru- ary happened at this place. It was a storm which raged on some portions of the east coast with a severity unequalled within the memory of...
HELP FOR WOMAN Stronsay, Orkneys. At n a.m. on ist December, 1964, a local doctor telephoned the honorary secretary to say that an expectant mother on the island of Eday needed immediate medical attention. It was 2\ hours past low water with...
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...
At 5.40 A.M. on the 21st December, during smooth but foggy weather, a new torpedo destroyer named the Beaver stranded about 1J miles south of Hasborough Lighthouse. The vessel had only re- cently been launched and was on her way to...
THE town of Ipswich has come forward in a novel and spirited manner in support of the life-boat cause. Although not actually on the coast, it has occurred to benevolent gentlemen resident at Ipswich, that inland towns might especially be...
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On the 16th August the 14,000-ton passenger and cargo steamer Letitia, of Glasgow, bound from Montreal to Glasgow, ran ashore on the South Briggs Rocks in a dense fog. In addition to cargo, she was carrying 300 passengers and 200 crew....
MOTOR BOAT OVERDUE Selsey, Sussex. At 6.40 p.m. on 24th January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor boat with three men on board was overdue at Littlehampton. Mr. Andrews, a member of the Inshore Rescue Scheme, had...
On the evening of the 3rd September the coastguard at Kilchoman reported that a steamer was in distress half a mile west of Colonsay. A strong west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and rain showers. The new motor life-boat Charlotte...
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...