HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 15th February, during an E.N.E. wind, a high sea, and heavy rain, the ketch Lizzie, of and from Yarmouth for Sunderland •with a cargo of flour and iron, in making for Hartlepool for shelter, struck on the...
CROMER AND PALLING, NORFOLK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the llth February the Cromer Life-boat, Louisa Hearticell, and the Palling No. 2 Life-boat, Hearts of Oak, went off to the Haisbro' Sands in response to a message from the light vessel...
CREW MEMBER LOST AFTER BOAT CAPSIZES Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 9.11 on the evening of the 7th April, 1963, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary of a message received from Reenard Point stating that a small boat with ten people on...
BABY BORN IN LIFE-BOAT HOUSE Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At eleven o'clock on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to take an expectant mother to the Galway Regional...
OUT ALL DAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 11.40 a.m. on i8th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Royal Navy frigate H.M.S. Blackpool, which was anchored off Blackpool, had the Fleetwood sea cadet harbour launch alongside, badly damaged....
Dunbar, East Lothian - At 9.47 a.m.
on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the life-boat that the cabin cruiser Fiola of Glasgow, with a crew of three, was aground on Belhaven Sands. The owner of the...
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 6.50 on the evening of the 17th June, 1961,the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an eleven-feet dinghy, with a doctor and his son on board, was adrift about a mile and a half north-east of Rhos...
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Driven ashore THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Stornoway lifeboat station received a message from HM Coastguard at 0540 on Sunday, August 28, saying that a small foreign vessel, Vieux Copains, had gone aground at Battery Point at Stornoway Bay, one...