PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the 22nd December, 1886, the schooner Jubilee, of Preston, bound from Liverpool for Dundalk with a cargo of coal, was seen to run aground on the Causeway Kocks, near Puffin Island, during a strong breeze from the N.W....
COMBINED OPERATIONS FOR CLIFF ACCIDENT St. Ives, Cornwall. At 4.48 p.m. on Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the St. Ives coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Hellesveor and that a rescue team had...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 25th of October, 1954, the weather worsened while four local fishing cobles were at sea, and at 11.15 the life-boat E.C.J.R. was launched in a flooding tide. The sea was heavy, and a fresh...
FEBRUARY 5TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 11.20 on the night of the 4th February, the coast watcher at Brownstown Head reported that a steam trawler was aground on a sandbank on the east side of Tramore Bay, and was showing flares. The...
On the 1st of April the barque Oberon, of Liverpool, ran ashore on the Causeway Bank in Cardigan Bay. She was seen from Portmadoc, and a large boat was also observed at a great distance from the land, apparently full of people. The Portmadoc...
FEBRUARY 8TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Three R.A.F. men were engaged in salving an aeroplane on the Goodwin Sands. They were working in a small boat from a trawler.
Their boat capsized leaving them stranded on...
Wicklow.—At 5.5. on the evening of the 7th of September, 1952, the Wick- low Head lightkeeper telephoned that a boy had fallen over a cliff a quarter of a mile north of Wicklow Head. At 5.20 the life-boat Lady Kylsant, with the ex-second...
Redcar, Yorkshire 21st February.
A fishing boat had stranded, but did not want the life-boat's help.— Rewards, £19 14s. 6d..
Arklow. Co. Wicklow.—27th October.
Signals had been reported from the Arklow lightship, but help was not needed.—Rewards, £8 8s. 6d..
Southend'on-Sea, Essex.-—30th September, 1938. A small boat had been reported missing, but the boat returned unaided.—Rewards, £20 18s. 6d..