OCTOBER 9TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning several fishing cobles had to cut, their lines and make for harbour, as a S.E. wind of almost gale force was blowing, and the sea was heavy. Three other cobles. Rosamond,...
Books The Story Of The Dover Lifeboats The Story Of The Hoylake and West Kirby Lifeboats written and published by Jeff Morris, prices in text Jeff Morris, Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, continues his prolific...
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THIRTEEN AT SEA Filey and Flamborough, Yorkshire.
At 1.20 p.m. on 3Oth December, 1964, the coastguard told the Filey honorary secretary that the wind was reaching storm force. As there were 13 local fishing cobles at sea...
Holy Island, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 25th March the coastguard reported that a small boat belonging to the tug Dunelm, with a boy on board, was drifting seawards from the harbour. A N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea...
October 20th, at 5 P.M.
The schooner Fantee, of Hamburg, bound from that port to Shields, was wrecked on the Tay Bank, 8 miles to leeward of St.
Andrew's. It was blowing a gale from the S.E. with, as...
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At about 2.20 A.M. on the 9th October, 1938, the coastguard at Orlock Head telephoned that a small vessel about a mile and a half N.E. of the Head was burning distress signals. She was the motor boat Mercedes, of...
FEBRUARY 28TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS. The engine of a Norwegian fishing vessel had broken down in a gale, and she was leaking, but in a lull her crew repaired the engine and she got into Lerwick unaided. A letter of thanks on behalf of the...
Difficult tow for Tyne in onshore Gale gusting to over 50 knotsThe Director of the the RNLI has written to Moelfre lifeboat station expressing his thanks 'for a fine service in adverse conditions' by the coxswain and crew of the...
JANUARY 4TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.50 in the morning, a Preston Corporation lightman at Lytham telephoned that a tanker was aground. The St. Annes coastguard were informed and the naval-officer-in-charge at Fleetwood...
Torbay, Devon. At six o'clock on the evening of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a 12-feet boat, which had been hired earlier in the day, had not returned. Further enquiries were made...