BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—At daybreak on the 10th August, while a moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with considerable ground swell, the s.s. Mogador, of London, was seen about nine miles north of Brancaster.
She showed no signal...
The s.s. Inger of Aalborg, whilst bound from that port to Sunderland, stranded on the 4th January, during a thick fog, to the south of Soutar Point. Information reached Whitburn about 8 P.M., and the Life- boat William and Charles was...
WESTON-SUPER-MARE. — As the S.S. Welsh Prince, of Newport, was leaving the pier at Weston-Super-Mare for Bristol, at 6.30 on the evening of the 22nd September, with upwards of forty passengers on board, and a crew of six men, a hawser by...
The No. 2.
Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was called out on the 16th October by signals of distress from a vessel close to the headland. When the Life-boat reached the vessel she was found to be the s.s. Aries, bound from...
At 10.3 p.m. on 30th March, 1968, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Alice Bowater had a sick man aboard suffering from acute abdominal pain. The vessel was then about 120 miles east of Spurn head.
Arrangements were made...
APRIL 21ST. - WALMER, KENT. Cries for help were heard coming from the sea, and found later to be from a man who had jumped overboard from the S.S. Montferland, of Amsterdam, but he was picked up by a boat from a Norwegian steamer. - Rewards,...
CROMER.—On the 20th November, during a heavy breeze from the E., rockets were observed in the direction of Foulness Shoal, or Cromer Bock, about two miles to the eastward of Cromer. The Life-boat was launched during a heavy snowstorm, at...
Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.50 on the morn- ing of the 15th of August, 1955, localshipping agents asked if the life-boat would take ashore a sick man from the S.S. Keynes, of London, which was lying at anchor two miles north-west of North Cockle...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 24th of De- cember, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Virginia, of Panama, had run ashore one mile west of Atherfield but had not made any distress signals....
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
—On the 23rd December, 1938, the Blyth motor life-boat rescued three of the crew of the s.s. Skaru, of Sunderland.
The Newbiggin motor life-boat was also called...