Galway Bay, Co. Galway. — At six o'clock on the evening of the 30th of October, 1956, the local doctor tele- phoned the honorary secretary to ask him if the life-boat would take an injured person to the mainland. As the tide would have...
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 9th of January, 1955, the Stornoway coast- guard telephoned that a message had been received from the Oban radio station that the steam trawler Moni- mia, of Fleetwood,...
Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 19th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a speedboat had capsized opposite Deal coastguard station about half a mile off shore. The life-boat Charles Dibdin...
BROADSTAIRS.—The brig Flamingo, of Farsund, laden with pit-props from Christiansand for Cardiff, having been observed running in the direction of the north end of the Goodwin Sands, the crew of the Broadstairs Life-boat were summoned. Soon...
PADSTOW.—-On the 13th Jan. 1894, the Life-boat Arab rendered assistance to the ketch St. Petroc, of Padstow. The master of the vessel was in need of the services of more men or of a tug, but only a small tug was available and it was...
EARLY on the evening of the 28th of August, 1957, a schoolmaster went to the harbour at Staithes in Yorkshire with a number of his pupils to bathe.
There was a light north-westerly wind blowing, and outside the harbour the...
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ON the 4th of August, 1951, the Calais life-boat, Marechal Foch, paid a visit to Dover. She had on board Dr. P.
Drujon, president of the Calais life- boat station, and members of his com- mittee. They were welcomed by...
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On the 3rd December, during a fresh wind from the N.E., the schooner Hero, of Maldon, anchored in distress on a lee shore. Soon afterward she slipped her cables and took the ground.
The -Duncan life-boat, stationed at...
Buckie, Banffshire.—At 9.15 on the night of the 20th of January, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Briarbank was tow- ing the fishing boat Katreen to Buckie, but that the weather was becoming worse. Ten minutes...
Caister, Norfolk. At 8.20 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1960, the life-boat mechanic telephoned to say the barge Will Everard was aground on Scroby Sand due east of the life-boat station. This was confirmed later by the coastguard....