The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 6.10 on the night of the 2nd of February, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was burn- ing green flares two miles west-north- west of Lizard Head. The coastguard signalled the ship by morse, and in reply she asked...
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...
Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6 P.M. on the 6th October, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the motor vessel Lochgoil, of London, had been sunk by enemy action five miles S. by W. of the Scarweather Lightship. She was a...
SUNK IN TWENTY MINUTES.
_ _ Peterhead, and Aberdeen, Aberdeen- shire.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 30th October, 1939, a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was sinking three miles east of Rattray...
FOOD TO A STARVING ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. — For nearly three weeks the island of Papa Stour had been cut off from the mainland and the islanders were starving. On January llth, 1947, the food executive officer for Shetland asked for the...
On the morning of the 24th February a Seaford resident telephoned to the assistant honorary secretary that a steamer was ashore at Seaford Head. She was the Unbe Mendi, of Bilbao, bound for Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore. A moderate S.W....
On the morning of the 2nd April it was reported that two young men, who had set out on the previous afternoon to explore the cliffs and caves at Studland, had not been seen since. Passenger steamers plying between Swanage and Bourne- mouth...
At about noon on the 3rd April the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a steamer appeared to be unmanageable.
Later she stranded on Spurn Point.
She was the s.s. Lancashire, of Sunder- land,...
Early on the morning of the 17th May the life- boat watchman heard a vessel sounding SOS on her siren, and a little later the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a trawler was ashore near Kilnsea Beacon. She was the steam...
At 6.20 A.M.
on the 20th May information was received that the yacht Wallaroo, of Fleetwood, while taking part in a race to the Isle of Man, had had her main- mast smashed during heavy weather.
She had...