Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.30 in the morning of the llth of October, 1949; the Civic Guard reported that a radio message had been picked up by the Roches Point Lighthouse, stating that the S.S. Glengariffe had wirelessed that the Daunt...
On the 27th July a small sailing boat, with two men and a boy on board, got into difficulties about three-quarters of a mile off the Muglins, at the entrance to the bay. The boat had put out from Bray for Kingstown, but had been blown out...
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. •— On the 15th January the fishing fleet from Arranmore, Burtonport, and the surrounding islands, put off to fish in Boylagh Bay. The boats did not return when expected, and, as a dense fog set in, the motor life-boat...
Hastings, Sussex.—On the afternoon of the 19th August a man told the honorary secretary that his speed-boat was anchored off the bathing pool, with her engine broken down, and that the weather was too bad for him to go off to her and fetch...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 A.M.
on the 15th March a message was received that a barge about half a mile south of Low Way buoy had been dismasted.
A west breeze was blowing, with a very rough sea. The...
Hilbre Island, Cheshire.—Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 23rd July information was received from Hilbre, through the Mersey Dock Board, that a yacht was in distress on Salisbury Bank. A strong, squally breeze was blowing from the N.N.W., with...
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-During the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to moderate sea. The Appledore motor...
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At about P.M. on the 4th April, 1938, a pilot reported that a boat was in distress off Sunderland. She was the motor fishing boat Lilian, of North Shields, with a crew of two, in difficulties owing to the fouling of...
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 12.15 P.M. on the 17th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a signal about one and a half miles N.W. from Kinnaird Head.
A strong north-westerly breeze was...
Lowestoft, and Kessingland, Suffolk.— On the afternoon of 16th September, 1938, the coastguard reported that he had seen the sailing boat Sea-gull, of Lowestoft, capsize about three miles south of the harbour entrance. A fresh south breeze...