Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - On 17th March, 1966, the life-boat Dunleary II was to undertake a special exercise in connection with the opening of the Irish Boat Show at which the Institution was represented. Before the life-boat left her...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 25th March the coastguard reported that a vessel north of the harbour was blowing for help. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and there...
Humber, Yorkshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a yacht was drifting towards the entrance of the River Hum- ber but was not showing distress...
Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.50 on the evening of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the mine sweeper H.M.S.
Warsash had asked for the life-boat to meet her at ten o'clock to take...
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At about 2.52 p.m. on 8th May, 1965 the honorary secretary saw a small boat under oars having great difficulty in keeping clear of the rocks off South Shields pier and realized that by trying to keep clear they...
Walmer, Kent.—At 7.34 on the even- ing of the 2nd of October, 1952, the Deal coastguard rang up to say a woman had reported that her husband, his friend and a child had put out on a fishing trip in the outboard motor boat Christina Peter,...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 3.7 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a woman had reported that her husband and two others had put out in the fishing boat Forward, of Beaumaris, at one o'clock the...
THREE SEARCHES FOR AN AEROPLANE Cloughey, Co. Down.—At 8.12 in the evening of the 27th of June, 1947, the Tara coastguard reported that an Aerovan aeroplane on a flight to New- townards was believed to have crashed one mile east of Craig...
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1956, the lighthouse keeper at Ballinacourty telephoned that a vessel was ashore on the rocks to the east of the lighthouse and that flares had been seen. At nine...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.37 on the afternoon of the 25th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht two miles west-south-west of Clacton Pier appeared to need help, and at 3.45 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...