DEC. 28TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 9.45 A.M. the coastguard reported an explosion, and five minutes later a message was received that, a vessel was making distress signals on her siren, east of the piers, at no distance...
FEBRUARY 7TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
Shortly after 9 in the evening information was received through the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine off Workington, and the motor life-boat Joseph Braithwaite was launched at...
JANUARY 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.48 A.M. a message was received that an aeroplane had come down in the sea off Brighton Palace Pier.
light N.E. breeze was blowing, with moderate swell. At 12.20 P.M. the motor...
MARCH 20TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 9.10 A.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel had been mined. A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was moderate. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 9.22 A.M. and found the S.S. Phobos, of...
APRIL 22ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.10 P.M. a message was received from the naval base that a vessel was sinking south of Gull Buoy. A gentle E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. At 2.20 P.M. the motor life-boat Prudential was...
OCTOBER 17TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the morning the coastguard reported that two vessels were ashore off Whitburn.
A moderate breeze was blowing, with a moderately rough...
FEBRUARY 15TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a collision had occurred between two vessels, off the Spanish Battery Point, and that the Swedish steamer Walborg, of Stockholm, had...
JANUARY 4TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
On the 2nd January, Dr. Cruickshank, of Walls, telephoned that the Queen’s District Nurse on Foula Island was dangerously ill and would have to be taken to the...
MAY 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
At about midnight on the 4th May information was received from the Padstow coastguard that a convoy had been attacked from the air about ten miles N. by W. of Stepper Point, and that one of...
DECEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Five men of a salvage firm were at work on the motor fishing boat Proficient, of Lowestoft, which was under Admiralty control and which, a few days before, had gone ashore ahout 400...