BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—At daybreak on the 10th August, while a moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with considerable ground swell, the s.s. Mogador, of London, was seen about nine miles north of Brancaster.
She showed no signal...
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.30 on the night of the 6th of December, 1948, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Saxton, of Middlesbrough, was aground outside the harbour entrance with her engines broken down, and the motor...
FEBRUARY 27TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
The S.S. Eldey, of Iceland, had run ashore on the Isle of Whithorn, but the crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard rocket life-saving appliances. - Rewards, £25...
Amble, Northumberland.—In the late afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Wind- sor Queen, of London, which was off Coquet Island, had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1954, shipping agents reported that the master of the S.S. Ocean Coast, of Liverpool, which was anchored in Yarmouth Roads, was seriously ill and needed a doctor. No...
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....
Margate, Kent.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a small boat had been reported in diffi- culties one mile off Tankerton. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
Palling and Cromer, Norfolk.—The s.s. New Oporto, of West Hartlepool, ! whilst bound from Middlesborough to London with a cargo of iron, on the 8th January, stranded on the Middle Haisborough Sands. The crew of the Palling Life-boat...
PORT ERROL., ABERDEENSHIRE.—The Life-boat Frances Camilla Howard was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 16th September and proceeded to the s.s. Milwaukee, of Liverpool, which had shown signals of distress, having stranded on...
JULY 29TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.35 A.M. the Hoylake coastguard reported that a vessel had struck a mine. A fresh N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The No. 2 motor lifeboat Edmund and Mary Robinson put out at 9.49 A.M....