At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th August, two youths, aged 15 and 14 respec- tively, took a boat from her moorings in the harbour and proceeded out to sea.
OH getting clear of the harbour, it was noticed by...
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 11.50 P.M. on the 8th March the Kirkwall coastguard reported that distress signals had been seen off Mull Head, Papa Westray, and that the life-boat was wanted. The motor life-boat J.J.K.S.W. put out at 12.15 A.M. on...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—A message was received from the coastguard at 8 A.M. on the 24th September, 1939, that a steamer was sinking through enemy action, three or four miles E. by N. from the look-out. A N.W.
breeze was...
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 11.30 on the night of the 27th of May, 1955, a man at Rock telephoned that his son had come ashore in a dinghy from his motor launch Wavehopper and had reported that the launch had broken down off The Mouls with four...
Anstruther, Fifeshlre. — About two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a Royal Air Force rescue launch had picked up a badly injured airman from an R.A.F. heli- copter, which during...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, members of the life-boat crew and others on shore noticed that three rowing boats, each with a crew of three, appeared to be having difficulty in making the shore....
SEARCH FOR TWO BOYS IN DINGHY Padstow, Cornwall. At 11.50 on the night of the 2nd May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the harbour master at Newquay had reported that two boys, who had left Newquay at 8.30 in the...
PATIENT TAKEN OFF ISLAND ESf NEAR GALE Howth, Co. Dublin. At 8.20 on the morning of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the Baily lighthouse keeper that a suspected case...
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a dinghy in the Rock Channel near R.4 buoy needed help and at 6.50 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett put to sea. A strong gale was blowing from the...
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.19 p.m. on 9th December, 1965, the coxswain was told that a small yacht was in difficulties at the harbour entrance. The motor fishing vessel Golden Hope went to the yacht, but was unable to render any assistance as...