Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.35 early on the morning of the 8th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the Norwegian fishing vessel Jenco II. was adrift near the Shipwash Sands | with the skipper apparently intoxi- cated. ...
Weston-sup&r-Mare, Somerset. — At about 6 P.M. on the 9th December, 1937, the pier-master at Clevedon informed the life-boat station that the Walton Bay coastguard had had a vessel anchored off Hook Buoy under observation since the...
Mrs Primrose Reidford, founder member of Ha warden branch in 1952. She held the office of president from 1980 to 1992 and was awarded a Silver badge in 1966, a gold badge in 1983 and a bar to the gold badge in 1992. (Mrs Reidf ord had also...
Category: Obituaries
On the 29th October the schooner Gipsy, of Drogheda, coal laden, in attempting to take the bar at the mouth of the Boyne, was driven ashore on the North Wall, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the south at the time. The Drogheda life-boat...
AUGUST 6TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 1.30 in the afternoon the Swedish Iron Ore Co., Middlesbrough, telephoned that their motor vessel Lena Broden was off that port and needed a pilot. The sea was too heavy for the pilot cutter to put out,...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.43 on the morning of the 14th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified coaster was aground near Barrow no. 6 buoy and was believed to need help. A strong north-east was...
MAN RESCUED AFTER EXPLOSION IN FISHING VESSEL Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. About 2.15 on the morning of the 7th June, 1963, Porthdinllaen coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an explosion had been heard to seaward off Trevor...
Boys on a Perch ON HEARING from the Coastguard that two boys were cut off by the tide and were clinging to the perch marking the sewer outfall between Rhyl and Prestatyn (Flintshire), the Rhyl honorary secretary immediately assembled his...
At 9.25 p.m. on 5th June, 1967, it was learned that a sailing dinghy was in difficulties off the R7 buoy. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 9.40 in a moderate south westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was...