ner, this Life-boat was again called off to another vessel, the brig Lisbon,,vhich, after daylight, was seen to be aground on the same sand. On boarding her, the master and mate were found in an ex- hausted condition, having been in the...
CULLERCOATS.—On the llth January, 1893, twenty-five cobles went out fishing, but as a strong N.E. gale sprung up accompanied by a rough sea they were compelled to return to port. Seventeen of them arrived safely in the harbour, but by the...
Whitehills, Banffshire. At 2.24 p.m.
on 28th November, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported that a man had fallen over the cliff at Troup Head and could be in the sea. The...
IN former numbers of this Journal we have had occasion to point out that the use of the means at hand, in case of shipwreck, although of the rudest and simplest form, may by a little ingenuity and presence of mind, often prove of service in...
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Shortly after 1 AM on the 13th October j a deplorable disaster overtook the St. David's Life-boat, Gam, after she had rescued three men from the ketch j Democrat, of Barnstaple. The Democrat was riding with her two anchors down on...
IN the year 1854 the great Merchant Shipping Act was passed, which was a substitute for all previous Acts, and which, with certain subsequent amendments, passed in 1855, 1856, 1862, and 1871, has since constituted the law for the regulation...
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Newcastle, Co. Down. — At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 9th of August, 1952, a R.A.F. officer at Glasdrumman telephoned that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties about three miles off Glasdrumman. She was drifting sea- wards broadside to...
An especial feature of the National Ship- wreck Institution, is the establishment of Local Committees for the management of their boats. As stated in the first number of this Journal, the Parent Institution looks to earnest, hearty...
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New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 21st of November, 1954, the Customs Water Guard Officer reported that the eight-feet dinghy Horace, of New Brighton, was drifting in the Rock Channel with three boys on board. At 11.42...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of October, 1952, the Red Sand Forts reported that a yacht had stranded on the Forts' steel structure and that two boys had been taken off her. The Forts asked if...