In the early morning of the 12th-13th July the cutter Lilian, of Arklow, stranded on the bar of Tacumshane, about six miles from Kilmore Quay. At low water two of the crew managed to get ashore and made for Kilmore for...
On the 17th February, the schooner Christina, of Timmel, bound from Shields for Teignmouth, with coal, was observed ashore on the Hasborough Sands. The Life-boat Hearts of Oak was launched at 10 A.M., in a very heavy sea, the wind blowing a...
At 12.15 A.M. on the 2nd October information was re- ceived that a vessel was continually burning flares off Trevose Head, and appeared to be driving ashore. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey were at once summoned, and the boat,...
On the after- noon of 7th November information that two anglers in a small boat were in dis- tress about one and a half miles ofi Hove was received by the Coastguard from the Hove Deep Sea Anglers' Club, to whom the boat and the men be-...
SINCE the Mayor of St. Ives's fund for the dependents of the life-boatmen who lost their lives when the life-boat was wrecked on 23rd January last, was closed at the sum of £10,500, a gift of £1,670 9s. 7d. has come from South...
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The Humber, Yorkshire.—While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn on the 23rd July, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a fresh westerly...
On the morning of the 2nd April the yacht Y Draig, of Portmadoc, left Aberyst- wyth harbour for a cruise in the bay.
There were four persons on board.
The wind was blowing fresh from the E.N.E. By 11 A.M...
After six days of gales from the S.E. to S.W. the wind changed on the 15th December to the N.W., blowing a moderate gale, with squalls of rain and a heavy, confused sea. During the afternoon the coxswain saw, about six miles S.E., a tramp...
At 9 A.M. on the 27th February, the coastguard reported that a sailing trawler in Yarmouth roads had had her sails carried away, and was flying a distress signal. A fresh S.S.E. gale was blowing, and the sea was very rough on the bar and in...
Tees mouth, and Redcar, Yorkshire.— At 6.40 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1948, the South Gare coastguard reported both to Teesmouth and Redcar that a rowing boat, with three boys on board, was in difficulties near broken water...