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Nicolaou Virginia

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...

Nell

Date: January 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 442

KETCH SNATCHED FROM GOODWINS WHEN a yacht was seen burning flares in the vicinity of the South Goodwin \ightvessel at 4.6 a.m. on 24th May, 1972, the Walmer, Kent, life-boat was launched 14 minutes later.

The life-boat...

Pilot Me II and Success

Date: Winter 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 353

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At midday on the 25th of February, 1950, a strong north-easterly wind was bringing up a dangerous sea on the Harbour bar, while the local motor fishing vessels, the Pilot Me II and Success were still at sea. At 12.15 the...

Pioneer

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Penlee, Cornwall.—During the night of the 22nd April, 1938, the coastguard at Penzer Point telephoned that a fishing boat was in distress about two miles S.S.W. of the point. A north breeze was blowing, with a smooth...

Otter

Date: September 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 393

Falmouth, Cornwall. At 3.10 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1960, the dock police informed the honorary secretary that two officers had seen red flares being fired in Falmouth harbour.

At 3.45 the life-boat Crawford and...

Sanantonias

Date: June 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 412

DOCTOR TO TRAWLER Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.35 a.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the honorary secretary was asked by Ilfracombe radio station to take a doctor out to the Belgian trawler Sanantonias to attend to two injured men.

At...

Vacation

Date: December 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 394

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 10.8 on the morning of the 12th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat was lying on its side at Barrow Sands.

A helicopter was not available, and the...

Fishing Boats (3)

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

North Sunder] and, Northumberland.

At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 13th December, 1961 the assistant motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that several fishing boats were unable to enter the harbour. There was a...

The Motor Sand Barge Tony

Date: June 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 400

DRIFTING SAND BARGE TAKEN IN TOW The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.20 on the morning of the 31st March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor sand barge Tony of Hull had broken adrift with one man on board...

San Marino

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 6.8 p.m. on 2ist July, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a fishing vessel was in danger of going on to the rocks at Poolbeg.

The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 6.20 in a...