.—At 11.35 A.M.
on the 30th September a telephone message was received at the coastguard's station, Clovelly, from the coastguard at Hartland Point, to the effect that a ketch was showing signals of...
At about 7 A.M. on the 19th October two young men started from Lynmouth with the intention of sailing to Porlock, but when off the Foreland the adverse wind and tide carried them about five miles out into the Channel. Here they got into...
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The Fame lighthouses having signalled a ship in distress on the Knavestone Bock, the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 2.45 A.M.
on the 12th July, in a moderate W.N.W.
gale and a...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.6 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that No. 18 Group, Royal Air Force, at Inver- keithing had reported that an air search was being made off Whitby for a missing Meteor aircraft. At...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 15th of March, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the local motor fishing boat Venture had left the island of Bernera, Lewis, for Stornoway on the 12th with a crew...
Eastbourne, and Newhaven, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 27th of September; 1953, during thick fog, a steamer wirelessed that the motor boat Angler's Luck, with a crew of two, three miles off Beachy Head had asked her...
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.50 on the night of the 30th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help could be heard from the wreck-marker buoy in Ox- wich Bay. At 11.5 the life-boat William Gammon—Manchester and...
During the evening of the 1st April the life-boat motor mechanic received a telephone message from the police and the coast- guard, reporting that six men were stranded on Burbo Bank. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. The...
— Early on the morning of the 17th March the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station tele- phoned that a vessel was apparently in distress near Fast Castle Point, about four miles up the coast. Her siren could be heard, but owing to the dense...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 17th of January, 1952, the South Gare Lighthouse keeper telephoned that a ship had gone aground on the training wall in the mouth of the River Tees, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat...