PILOT BOAT TAKES RELIEF BOAT IN TOW Clogher Head, Co. Lough. At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 10th July, 1962, the honorary secretary received a message from the Baily lighthouse that the small relief boat for the Dundalk lighthouse was...
Aith, Shetlands.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1954, the Lerwick coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Britannia, of Lerwick, with a crew of five, had broken down in Papa Sound off Sand- ness. At 12.58 the...
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—On the morning of the 15th of September, 1956, a heavy storm came up from the south-east. The majority of the fish- ing boats which were at sea had re- turned to harbour, but it was reported that the fishing...
ABOUT 6.30 on the evening of the 15th July, 1962, a party of four people and a dog put to sea from Axmouth harbour, near Seaton, in a 12-foot 6-inch motor boat driven by a 5 horse-power out- board engine. After about an hour the man in...
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Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a number of people who had been on board the motor boat Dandy of Deganwy, which had been beached on Puffin Island,...
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. At about 9.30 in the mornmg of the 7th October, 1942, a military aeroplane crashed into the sea about four miles, N.N.W. of Girvan. The sea was calm, with a light westerly wind. The Fraserburgh motor fishing boat Primrose,...
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CULLERCOATS.—On the 8th May the Palmerston Life-boat was launched to theaid of several fishing vessels which hadbeen overtaken by a heavy sea, rendering it dangerous for them to cross the bar in returning to port. The boat remainec some time...
Fowey, Cornwall.—About 5.40 in the evening of the 28th of August, 1949, the Polruan coastguard reported a vessel in distress three miles east-south-east of Mevagissey, and at 6 o'clock the life- boat C.D.E.C. was launched in a light...