THE Admiralty Register of the Wrecks that have occurred on the coasts of the United Kingdom during the year 1854 has just been published by order of the House of Commons, accompanied by the Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the same...
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FEBRUARY 27TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
A Whitley bomber had been reported down in the sea, but actually it had come down close to the shore north of Fife Ness. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d..
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINSHIRE.
A steamer had stranded, but her crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus from Johnshaven. - Rewards, £25 15s. 6d..
JUNE 24RD. - ILFRACOMBE, AND LYNMOUTH, DEVON. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Ilfracombe, £18 5s. ; Lynmouth, £32 19s..
JULY 24TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
An aeroplane had fallen into the sea, but her crew of two were rescued by a flying-boat.
- Rewards, £13 5s. 6d..
DECEMBER 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but she reached Port Isaac under her own power. - Rewards, £4 8s..
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Selsey, Sussex.—At 5.34 on the after- noon of the 14th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to pass on a report that a yacht appeared to be in distress about one mile off shore between East Wittering and Bracklesham Bay. The life-boat...
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.5 on the morning of the 18th of June, 1958, the Lade coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been lost overboard from the tanker Pan Gothia of Kungsbacka, Sweden, seven and a half miles south-west...
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 1.6 p.m.
on 6th December, 1969, the coastguard told the coxswain of the lifeboat that a catamaran appeared to be adrift and in difficulties north of Skerries. Eventually the life-boat St. Cybi (Civil...