Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 28th of December, 1951, the master of the motor vessel Fran- cine, of Antwerp, who had come ashore to get stores, reported that the Francine was drifting ashore a hundred yards off Weymouth...
Youghal, Co. Cork.—On the afternoon of the 10th February the Civic Guard reported that a local salmon fishing boat, with four men on board, was in difficulties. A whole E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The weather was very...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was...
ON THE MANACLE ROCKS Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, a message came that the motor vessel Antilope, of Groningen, had struck the Manacle Rocks. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough,...
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Hoylake, Cheshire.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1952, the life-boat coxswain asked local people to keep a look-out for the fishing vessel Greylass, of Hoylake, which was overdue with a crew of three. Nothing...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—During thick fog on the afternoon of the 9th of Decem- ber, 1952, a vessel about two miles south-east of the harbour was heard blowing her siren, and at 5.15 the coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen. At 5.22...
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 8.55 on the evening of the 4th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a fishing boat appeared to be drifting about three miles to the eastward, and that one of her crew was waving a flag on an oar...
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1953, the coxswain received a message that three people had gone out fishing at six o'clock in a small rowing boat fitted with an outboard motor, and that they had not...