At about 5.45 A.M. on the 15th February flares were observed by the Coastguard about five miles E.N.E. of Cromer, and he promptly reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Louisa Heartwell. On arriving at the vessel, which proved to be the...
.—-At 11 o'clock on the night of the 19th December, a message was received by telephone reporting that a vessel was making distress signals off the Hook Sands at the entrance of Poole Harbour. The Life-boat Hamar was promptly launched...
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 14th October, the Coxswain, who was near the harbour, saw a fishing boat making for the entrance.
A moderate N.W. gale was blowing with a heavy swell, and the river Girvan, which...
Just after mid- night on the 21st-22nd October the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, anchored about one mile east of Hengistbury Head, was in danger of being washed ashore. A moderate south gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain...
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.43 on the night of the 30th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had gone aground near the North Goodwin Buoy, and at 9.49 the life- boat Prudential left her moorings.
The sea was...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the 4th of December, 1950, the Belgian trawler Yarmouth, bound for Ostend with white fish and carrying acrew of eleven, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. There she wirelessed for...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. — About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned a message received from Cross- bost Post Office that a motor fishing vessel, the Triumph, of Stornoway, appeared to be in a...
FOUR SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT SEARCH FOR BOY St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 1.34 on the morning of Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, a message was received from the signal station that the Alderney harbourmaster had reported that a boy was missing in...
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 7.10 on the morning of the 16th of January, 1955, the Ramsey coastguard reported that the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, had sent a distress message.
He later gave her position as five...