Humber, Yorkshire. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a small dinghy with four people on board was in difficulties at the mouth of the...
ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th February, 1962, the conditions at the harbour bar were very bad because of heavy seas and the state of the tide. As the local fishing boat Margaret Jane was...
Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 3.55 on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1957, the coxswain of the life-boat reported that a small yacht was burning flares off North Rock. At 4.15 the life-boat Constance Calverley was...
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that there was an injured man on board the steam trawler Rizzio, of Grimsby. At five o'clock the...
HAD BROKEN BOOM Later again on the same day, at 9.5 p.m., the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing flares about half a mile south of the Needles.
The tide was rising with a rough sea and strong...
Galway Bay. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1958, the local doctor asked the acting honorary secretary if the life-boat would take an expectant mother from Inish- maine Island to the mainland. There was an...
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.43 on the evening of the 19th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on the rocks at Groomsport.
At six o'clock the life-boat Sir Samuel...
Wicklow. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the llth of February, 1960, the coxswain was informed that a motor vessel which had engine trouble needed a tug. Her position was three miles north-east of Wicklow Head. As no tug was available the...
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 16th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing boat Windsor Rose was trying to make har- bour in worsening weather...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 3.10 a.m. on 26th February, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men who had arrived in Dunmore by car had informed them that a boat was firing distress signals above Creadon Head. It...