FISHING VESSEL'S CREW TAKEN OFF ROCKS Wick, Caithness-shire. At 7.26 on the morning of the 30th May, 1963, Wick coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Seonaid of Lybster with two people on board was sinking...
Buckle, Banffshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Spinaway of Lossiemouth was asking for assistance as she was leaking. At 9.5 the life-boat...
THE Annual Meeting of this Society was held on the 25th May last, at Willis's Rooms, under the chairmanship of his Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society. There were also present a large number of the friends and...
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BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE.—A fleet of twenty yawls, engaged in flounder fishing in St. Andrew's Bay, left Broughty Ferry between seven and eight o'clock on the morning of the 4th March, the weather being fine with a moderate breeze from...
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Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 18th March a telephone message was received by the Harwich Coastguard reporting that a vessel, with her sails blown away, was driving east of Woodbridge Haven, and showing signals of distress. The steam Life-...
ON Christmas Eve of last year a wireless appeal for the Life-boat Service was made by the Duke of Montrose. chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, a vice-president of the Institution and now the Institution's...
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At about 6 P.M., on the 12th March, two men put off in a pilot boat to pull a line set at sea. It was too dark to find it and they tried to get into harbour again, and twice were driven back, the boat shipping heavy seas. The third time they...
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Signal guns having been fired by the lightships on the evening of the 10th October, the No. 2 Life-boat Theodore and Herbert put off from Southend and the Albert Edward Life-boat was launched...
JUNE 13TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET, At 7.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the oil tanker British Inventor, of London, 7,000 tons, had been torpedoed or mined near the Shambles Lightvessel and was sinking. The weather was...