THUHSO, N.B.—During a severe gale of wind from the N. and a heavy sea, on the night of the 5th March, the schooner HepJmbah, bound from Carnarvon to Newcastle, with slates, and the smack Annie, of Port Binorwie, bound for Wick, showed...
LOWESTOFT.—The schooner Swift, of Eye, bound to that port from Seaham with coal, was seen with a flag of distress during a gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea at about 11 A.M. on the 12th December, and the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat thereupon...
The services of this Life-boat were also called into requisition on the 31st December, on the afternoon of which day a large vessel, distant some eight miles to the eastward of Sidmouth, was seen flying a flag of distress, during stormy...
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—On the night of the 29th January, while a strong wind was blowing from E.N.E. the weather being squally and the sea heavy, an intimation was received that the services of the Life-boat were needed. The crew and helpers...
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 1.30 early on the morning of the 11 th of September.
1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that two small fishing boats, which had left Castlebay at four o'clock in the afternoon, had...
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Margate, Kent - At 8.33 a.m. on 27th April, 1969, the coastguard stated that a report had been received from the m.v. Australia Star that a yacht was flying distress signals near the Mid Shingles buoy. The life-boat crew were requested to...
While the fishing cobles were I out on the 3rd April the S.E. breeze increased and the sea became very heavy. Two cobles nearly foundered i when coming in, and as it was feared that the remainder would come to grief, the Life...
On the night of the 12th January the barque Britannia, of North Shields, bound from Mauritius to Greenock, got on shore, in moderate weather, on the north side of Port Logan Bay; the crew saving them- selves by climbing over the rocks at low...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.14 on the morning of the 3rd of May. 1955, a man rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from his fishing boat Ros Ailither that she had taken in tow the fishing boat Ros...