Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 12th March the weather got very bad, and several of the local boats at sea returned to harbour. One boat, the Margaret, was still to come, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was...
Baltimore, Co. Cork.—On the 23rd of June, 1952, a party of twenty-one people, belonging to Skibbereen, left Baltimore for Cape Clear Island eight miles from the mainland, but did not arrive back in the evening when expected. Their friends...
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—When attempting to enter Berwick Harbour during the afternoon of the 28th of August, 1952, the steam drifter Ugie Vale, of Peterhead, with a crew of nine, went aground on some rocks just...
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.15 on the morning of the 31st of January, 1953, the life-boat coxswain reported that two men were in diffi- culties in a rowing boat. They had anchored two miles east of Lytham pier and were flying a...
Caister, Norfolk. —At 11.14 in the afternoon, on the 17th of March, 1951, a resident reported that a ship was on the Barber Sands. At 1.30 the life- boat Jose Neville was launched in a smooth sea with a moderate south- westerly...
Clovelly, Devon. — At 9.20 in the morning of the 25th of September, 1951, the S.S. Rocquaine, of Guernsey; bound from Newport for Guernsey, signalled that three of her crew had been badly burnt by an explosion in her hold, and asked for the...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—About 8.30 on the night of the 5th of November, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that the motor ship Geziena, of Rotterdam, which the life-boat had escorted to the harbour the previous afternoon, had parted her moorings in...
SICK CHILD TAKEN TO MAINLAND Galway Bay. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st August, 1962, the local doctor asked for the help of the life-boat in bringing a sick child from Inishmaan to the mainland as no other boats were...
ESCORT FOR POLISH VESSEL IN NEAR GALE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 9.7 on the morning of the 13th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a resident of Trearddur Bay had reported a small vessel burning red...
CATAMARAN WITH DECKS AWASH SAVED New Brighton, Cheshire. At nine o'clock on the evening of Friday the 16th of August, 1963, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that a catamaran, Spindrift, appeared to be in trouble off...