.—Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 16th March the N.N.E. wind became very squally, and increased to a gale, when three of the Bridlington Quay fishing-boats, which had gone off early in the morning, were off Hornsea. At about 11 A.M. the wind...
ALDEBURGH.— A message by telephone was received from the Ship wash Lightvessel,Lightvessel, on the evening of the 12th April, reporting that a vessel was stranded on the Shipwash Sands. A strong N.W.
breeze was blowing,...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—About 1.15 in the afternoon, on the 15th of July, 1950, the Penzance coastguard telephoned that the trawler Barnet was drifting ashore about a mile east of Penzance lighthouse. She was engaged in the refloating operations...
OC T . 2 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 7.55 P.M. the Deal coastguard reported that two steamers had been in collision near the Fork Buoy. A strong squally N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 22nd of November, 1956.
the fishing cobles Rosemary, Hilda and Premier had put to sea. Shortly before ten o'clock the weather worsened, and as the fishing cobles were due...
PLEASURE BOAT RUNS AGROUND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. The life-boat coxswain was fishing in his motor boat Star of the Sea a quarter of a mile southwest of Ballycotton lighthouse on the morning of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, when he saw...
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Girvan, Ayrshire.—At 3.15 in the afternoon, on the 19th of January, 1951, the coxswain saw the local motor fishing boat Grace Stuart approaching the har- bour. There was a heavy sea across the bar with a north-westerly breeze, and...
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.——At 7.30 in the night of the 23rd of October, 1949, a resident of Criccieth telephoned that he could see an unusual light a.
mile off Criccieth. The life-boat station made further enquiries...