CABIN CRUISER TOWED OFF SANDS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.56 on the night of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small craft was reported to be aground on the Sunk Sands near No. 6 Barrow West buoy and that she...
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.— Signals of distress being shown by the brigantine Parkside, of Dundalk, on the 11th May, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a heavy sea, the Life-boat Mary Isabella put off to her a-sistance at 9.55 A.M....
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 16th of February, 1955, the weather worsened while fishing boats were at sea, and at 11.5 the life- boat E.C.J.R. was launched to escort them in. The sea was heavy, a moder- ate north-easterly...
Fleet wood, Lancashire. — At 9.45 on the night of the 17th of January, 1951, the agents for the Swedish steamer Rita telephoned that this ship was lying off the Wyre Light with a badly injured man on board. They asked the life- boat to take...
Pier rescue The Redcar relief Atlantic 21 lifeboat Himley Hall was returning from a false alarm when the Coastguard asked the crew to investigate a report of children in difficulty at the end of Saltburn Pier. The lifeboat arrived quickly...
ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Tobermory, Argyllshire.—On January 20th, 1947, a doctor telephoned asking for the life-boat to convey to Oban a woman with child, who was dangerously ill. The only hope of saving her life was to get her to Oban...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 6.0 in the evening, on the 22nd of July, 1951, the coxswain saw a small yacht making heavy weather on a northerly course and asked the Wal- ton-on-the-Naze coastguard to keep a watch on her. At 6.23 the coast...
On the 27th of December, the Norwegian bark, William, of Tonsberg, ran ashore in thick and squally weather, near Camber, about three miles on the north side of Eye Harbour. The life-boat at No. 31 Tower, on the .opposite side of the harbour,...
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 4.20 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the coastguard reported that the skipper of the trawler John Willment had found one of his crew in a state of collapse with no apparent heart-beat or pulse.
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At 9.15 P.M. on the llth May it was reported that a fishing vessel, the Harry Martin, of Ramsgate, in trying to make the Har- bour had failed to do so and was driving ashore. The weather at the time was very bad, with a strong N.E. gale...