AUGUST 14TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
About 7.10 in the evening information from the naval authorities was received at both Clovelly and Padstow that two vessels were sinking, as a result of...
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1955, the Polruan coastguard rang up to say that a sailing dinghy had capsized three-quarters of a mile south-west of Blackbottle. At 11.35 the life-boat Deneys Reitz put out...
LLANAELHAIARN, NORTH WALES.—On the 29th January, the coxswain of the Life-boat observed a schooner which proved to be the Renown, of Swansea, coal laden from Cardiff for Amlwch, in distress, apparently making for Llanaelhaiarn, and knowing...
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 8th April, during a N. wind, squally weather and a very rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the sloop Watson, of Goole,was at about 5.15 P.M. The Life-boat Ann, John and Mary was at once got ready for...
ON two successive days the Motor Lifeboat at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, was launched to take doctors out to sick men on board vessels. On 24th March, an American steamer, the Yapalaga of Philadelphia, was seen approaching from the Needles...
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HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE.—On the 7th February it was reported that a flat was in distress and would require assistance.
She first caught the Salisbury Bank, where she lost her punt, but got off, slipped her anchor and made...
The s.s. Long- newton, of Sunderland, when bound for London on the 19th January, struck the rocks outside Seaham Har- bour. She proceeded about a mile to sea, when she was seen to put back and hoist a signal for "immediate...
GALLANT hearts are pulling— Pulling might and main, Through the boiling breakers, Through the blinding rain; Anxious eyes are watching— Watching from the shore, Fiercely blows the tempest, Loud the ocean's roar.
Gallant...
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FOOD TO A STARVING ISLAND Aith, Shetlands. — For nearly three weeks the island of Papa Stour had been cut off from the mainland and the islanders were starving. On January llth, 1947, the food executive officer for Shetland asked for the...
LIFE-BOAT AND HELICOPTER SEARCH FOR CATAMARAN Wells, Norfolk. At 1.28 a.m. on Monday the 15th of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with three men on board was missing from Brancaster. There was a...