THURSO, SCOTLAND. — Daring a very strong gale of wind from the E.N.E., and a heavy sea, on the 8th December, signals of distress were shown by vessels in the roadstead. The Life-boat, Charley Lloyd, put off to their assistance at 4 P.M. and...
Aberdeen.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 29th of January, 1956, the coast- guard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Stone- haven radio station that the trawlers York City, of Grimsby, and Junella, of Hull, had picked up...
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 25th November, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was taken to Margate Roads in tow of the Ramsgate Harbour steam-tug Aid, during a strong N.N.E. gale and heavy sea, when she succeeded in saving the crew of 5 men from...
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Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 2.35 p.m. on 14th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four cobles, one of which had 25 passengers on board, were still at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions.
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OCTOBER 18TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
A strong westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and during the morning the lifeboat coxswain was on watch, as some motor fishing cobles were out at sea. At 1.25 P.M.
Scarborough, Yorkshire. •—• At 11.10 A.M. on the 20th August the motor lifeboat Herbert Joy II was launched, as two cobles were at sea, and a strong N.W. breeze had got up, with a rough sea. Just as the life-boat was moving off a message was...
On the 6th Decem- ber, during a gale from N.N.E., with heavy squalls of rain and hail, the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, was stranded off St. Andrews. The Annie life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and soon succeeded in...
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About 10 P.M. on the 7th December the coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat observed a signal light being burned from a vessel in the bay, apparently making for West Hartlepool. The ship suddenly altered her course, and ran...