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Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.0 on the night of the 6th August, 1952, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen one mile south-south-east of Bolt Head. At 10.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings,...
A Whaler from H.M.S. Bulwark
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.55 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a naval whaler was in difficulties one mile north-cast of Strumble Head.
The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched...
Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies
BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
Category: Articles
May Lily
JULY 27TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The fishing boat May Lily was overdue No news about her could be obtained and at three in the afternoon a request was made for aeroplanes to search.
They returned...
Rescue After Two Tankers Collide
AT 10.20 on the night of the 25th of October, 1960, two coastal tankers collided near the entrance to the dock at Sharpness on the Rivern Severn.
One was the Arkendale, which was loaded with 206 tons of diesel oil. The...
Category: Services
Dunelm
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.50 in the morning of the 18th of June, 1949, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned that the tug Dunelm, of Newcastle, was signalling for help, and blowing her siren, half a mile east of Seahouses, and...
W. D. Potts
The Beauchamp Life-boat was again called out for service on the morning of the 14th October. The watchman having observed a light in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand, the coxswain, who had just arrived at the beach, looked through the...
Coxswain J. A. Atkinson
COXSWAIX J. A. ATKINSON died on the 17th of October, 1955, at the age of 76. He was coxswain of the Padstow no. 1 life-boat from 1929 until he retired in 1944. His earliest appoint- ment by the Institution was as mate of the tug Helen Peele...
Category: Obituaries
Petersfield
The steamer Priestfield of Newcastle, a vessel of upwards of 4000 tons gross tonnage, stranded to the S.W. of Morthoe Point in a thick fog on the night of the 7th—8th May. She was bound from Antwerp to Barry in ballast, and had a crew on...
Agenora
DUNMORE, WATERFORD.—The Agenora, trawler, of Tenby, arrived off Dunmore, at 3 A.M. on the 8th December with her mainsail split during a gale of wind from the S.W. and an extremely rough sea. Being unable to enter the dock, she laid-to...