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At about 5.30 A.M. on the 10th January a vessel was seen drifting before a S.E.
gale in Bridlington Bay. Information was given to the Life-boat authorities, and the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was launched and...
89
During the afternoon of the 8th August, the Trawler No. 89, of Liverpool, stranded on Taylor's Bank. Towards sunset it was seen that the wind was backing and likely to increase; it was therefore thought advisable to send the Life-boat...
Charles Francis
During a heavy W.S.W. gale signals of distress were seen at 2.20 A.M. on the 6th March from a vessel in close proximity to the " stones." The Life-boat James Stevens No. 10 was promptly launched and with some difficulty, owing to...
Washington
SEPT. 2ND. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At 6.36 A.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat authorities that the trawler Washington, of Grimsby, was ashore near Duncansby Head. The weather was very foggy, with a fresh southerly...
Books
• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...
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Pass of Balmaha
Douglas, Isle of Man.—On the 5th of June, 1956. the harbour master was informed by the local agent of the tanker Pass of Balmaha, of London, that a member of her crew had had a seizure and was unconscious. The harbour master asked if the...
Esso Stockholm
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SWEDISH TANKER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 4.27 on the morning of the 2nd June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the tanker Esso Stockholm had a very sick seaman on board who needed medical attention...
Agnes and Ann
On the 23rd August the Life-boat was launched at 2 A.M. to the assistance of the fishing-boat Agnes and Ann, of St. Andrews, which was lying at anchor waiting for daylight and the tide to enable her to enter the harbour. As a gale of wind...
H.M.S. Brave
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 11.5 on the night of the 18th of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was on the Black Middens Rocks.
At 11.29 the life-boat Tynesider was launched, accompanied by the honorary...
Mystical Rose
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 20th of March, 1958, the fishing boat Mystical Rose of Wexford, which was on charter to the Wexford harbour commissioners for duties as a pilot boat, had not returned to...