Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.15 on the evening of the 9th of April, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a sick person to Lochboisdale for conveyance to Glas- gow by air ambulance. At 8.45 the life-boat Lloyd's...
Seaham, Durham.—At 10.33 on the night of the 23rd of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen four and a half miles to the north-north-east. At 10.45 the life- boat George Elm;/ was launched. The sea was slight, there...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 9.40 on the night of the 7th of July, 1955, a message was received from the pilots at Passage that a boat had broken down off Brownstown Head. At 9.55 the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith put out, with the...
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 6.42 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1955, the harbourmaster telephoned that the Cregneish wireless station had received a message from Chicken Rock light- house that a boat was in distress near the lighthouse....
Exmouth, Devon. — At 12.53 early on the morning of the 18th of August, 1955, the coast-guard rang up to say that red flares had been seen on the seaward side of Pole Sands. At 1.9 the life-boat Maria Noble was launched. There was a ground...
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat had cap- sized off Buley Beach between. Pol- kerris and Par. Four people were clinging to her bottom. At 3.25...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 10.14 on the night of the 31st of May, 1956, the Spurn Point coastguard reported thatthe Norwegian trawler Havkvern had sent a message that she would be off Spurn lightvessel about three o'clock the next morning and...
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 6.25 in the morning of the 7th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the keepers of the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse had reported a motor vessel, a mile north of the Mull, drifting east - north - eastwards...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.42 in the morning of the 28th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in distress one and a half miles west-south-west of Clacton pier, and at 10.50 the Sir Godfrey Baring was launched. The sea...
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.3 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1952, the Wallasey police telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the river Mersey off Egremont, and that two people were in the water. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...