HOLY ISLAND.—Several boats put to sea on the morning of the 20th January, intending to proceed to the fishinggrounds.
The weather was thick and heavy, and soon after the boats had departed heavy breakers were rolling over...
The fishermen assembled on the piers about 3.30 A.M., on the 24th May, for the purpose of going off to their crab and lobster pots, but owing to the strong i sea only one coble, the Friendship, • ventured out. She left harbour...
At about noon on the 23rd November, during a moderate southerly gale, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Thomas McCunn received a telegram from the Light-keeper at Mull of Galloway, stating that a Russian barquentine was driving across Luce Bay...
PALLING.—Soon after midnight on the 28th May, while a strong N.N.E. wind was blowing and a heavy sea running,a vessel was reported to have stranded on the beach at Waxham, two and a half miles southward of the Falling Life-boat station. The...
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the 22nd December, 1886, the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, bound from Liverpool for Dundalk with a cargo of coal, was seen to run aground on the Causeway Kocks, near Puffin Island, during a strong breeze from the N.W....
.—On the evening -of the llth January, considerable anxiety was felt for the safety of fourteen fishing boats belonging to Poole, the south- westerly wind having suddenly increased to a whole gale whilst they were out at sea. Many members...
FEBRUARY 5TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 11.20 on the night of the 4th February, the coast watcher at Brownstown Head reported that a steam trawler was aground on a sandbank on the east side of Tramore Bay, and was showing flares. The...
A FEBRUARY gale swept the Lytham St. Anne's life-boat Sarah Townsend Porritt from her moorings and eight of her crew had to set off in pursuit in the boarding boat. After a chase for a mile and a half towards Freckleton Marshes they were...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 23rd of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Rolling Wave was drifting in the fairway south of Southend pier. Later he reported that she had fouled the...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—On the morning of the 15th of July, 1950, two men from Cwmyreglwys were out in a rowing boat attending to their lobster pots. At ten o'clock the coastguard reported them well overdue, and later said they...