FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a doctor and bring in from a steamer shipwrecked men whom she...
The s.s. Kyanite, of Glasgow, whilst bound from Treport, France, to Manchester, with a cargo of flints, stranded at the Lizard on the 24th June. The crew of the Life-boat Minnie Moon were assembled, and the i Life-boat launched at 2.35 A.M....
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1951, Lloyd's agent reported that the S.S. Matching, of London, due off Gorleston at 6.0 that evening, had a sick man on board and had asked for a...
A strong N.W.
gale was blowing, and about 1.30 P.M.
on the 6th January, the s.s. Tetlujs (a new sand pump dredger), bound from Glasgow to Sydney, N.S.W., made for Hayle through stress of weather ; after...
On 7th October a wireless message was received from the s.s. East Indian, of Detroit, U.S.A., that she was putting into Stornoway, as one of her crew had been severely injured. When she arrived, shortly before four on the morning of the 8th,...
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Coastguard at Cresswell Point reported that a steamer was ashore about a mile S. of the Life-boat station, during a strong S.E. wind and a strong sea, on the 24th December, whereupon the Life-boat Ellen and...
PORTH RHUFFYDD, ANGELSEY. — On the morning of the 22ud June the coxswain of the Life-boat received intelligence that steamer was ashore S.E. of the Life-boat station. The weather at the time was thick, a moderate wind was Wowing from the S.W...
Sunderland, Durham. — About two o'clock early on the morning of the 5th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Bruse, of Oslo, had broken down at the entrance to the harbour and was drifting dan- gerously near the South...
The S.S. Hybert, of Wilmington, U.S.A., a vessel of some 6,500 tons, stranded on the South Goodwin Sands, about 7.20 A.M. on 6th November, in a light breeze.
She had a crew of thirty-six and a general cargo on board, and...
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—The 'Husband Life-boat was launched at 7 A.M. on the 9th March, during a whole gale of wind and a very heavy sea, signals having been fired by the Cross Sand Light-vessel. The boat proceeded in a S.S.E. direction, and...