ANOTHER distressing wreck occurred just to the north of the town, on Sunday morning, the 13th January, 1895, when, after a heavy S.E. by S.
gale all night with snow squalls, the brig James and Eleanor, of Shields, was seen...
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by Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R.
Deputy Chairman of the Institution.
This is the second part of Commander Szoann's article. In this issue he deals with his subsequent visit to...
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Awards for saving drowning man...
Brain Barkess, crew member at Sunderland lifeboat station, has been awarded a Royal Humane Society Resuscitation Certificate in recognition of his actions during the rescue of three people...
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Ferryside, Carmarthenshire.—At about 1.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1948, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a bod'y had been washed ashore at Ferryside that morn- ing, and the motor fishing vessel Mary Anne, of Swansea,...
Galway Bay. — At ten o'clock in the morning of the 12th of July, 1949, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Costello, Connemara, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at eleven...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At three o'clock on the after- noon of the 28th of May, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a local doctor had received a message from the S.S. Sunfleet, of Goole. asking if a man on board,...
Walmer Kent.—At 4.20 P.M. on the * 4th October, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported that the s.s. Noordam, of Rotterdam, lying off Deal, had signalled for a boat to take a man ashore for an immediate operation. A strong E. by S. wind was...
Margate, Kent.—On the afternoon of the 10th of February, 1957, the life- boat Cunard was on passage from Brightlingsea to Margate to carry out temporary duty. At the entrance to the River Colne the coxswain saw a man standing up in a motor...
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 25th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that a rubber- covered dinghy had been observed by a pilot of a Rritish European Air- ways aircraft some five miles east of Ronaldsway. The...
FISHING VESSEL'S CREW TAKEN OFF ROCKS Wick, Caithness-shire. At 7.26 on the morning of the 30th May, 1963, Wick coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Seonaid of Lybster with two people on board was sinking...