BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. — At 10.45 P.M. on the 27th January signals for help were observed from a vessel at Boulmer Head, and within a quarter of an hour the Life-boat Meliscent was on her way to her assistance. She proved to be the steam...
LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.—At midnight on the 29th March the trawler Industry, of Lowestoft, while homeward bound, went ashore on the Newcome Sands.
A strong wind was blowing accompanied by a heavy sea at the time....
A stormy westerly breeze was blowing in the early morning of the 27th January, and only three of the North Sunderland cobles ventured out, two or three from Beadnell being out.
During the forenoon the wind freshened until...
At 5.45 A.M. on the morning of 23rd Sep- tember the coxswain observed a fishing- boat approaching the harbour in a strong S.S.E. wind with a very heavy sea.
The boat was struck by successive seas and thrown on to the Annat...
On the 21st September the fishing-boat Resolute, of Leith, whilst bound from Methil to Kincardine for fishing, was driven to sea by the force of the gale, and took refuge in St. Andrews Bay. On the 28th September, when lying there, she was...
The Life - boat Charles and Eliza Laura was called out during moderate weather on the 23rd December, and stood by the steam- trawler Goosander, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the rocks at Dulas Island. The vessel was successfully...
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the arrival of the steam ferry boat Thistle from Liverpool on the morning of the 27th January, the master reported that a vessel was ashore on Taylor's Bank. The coxswain of the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was...
BROUGHTY FERRY.—On the 20th Maythe brig Speculation, of Ohristiania, bound from Tayport for Bremen, with coal, was in tow of a steam-tug in a strong N.E.
wind and a choppy sea, when the towrope broke. Another hawser was...
On the 9th of February, 1953, six of the crew of seven of the Fraserburgh life-boat lost their lives when the life- boat capsized near the harbour entrance in a heavy sea. For a full account of this disaster see page 469..
Montrose, Angus.—At 6.7 on the even- ing of the 25th of August, 1953, the Usan coastguard passed on a message from a pilot that the Arbroath fishing boat Family's Pride had left Montrose under sail that afternoon, bound for Arbroath with...