During a strong 8.E. gale on the 30th December signals of distress were made by the schooner T. H. Harrow, of Lancaster, which was lying at anchor about one mile east of : the Queen's Pier. The Life-boat Mary Isabella at once responded,...
At about 9 A.M. on the 6th March during a strong N.E. gale signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Walter J.
Cummins, of Irvine, which was at anchor about one-and-a-half miles to the north- east of the harbour...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 28th May. The weather got bad and some of them came in. By 8 A.M.
a heavy sea was rolling in and breaking at the harbour entrance, and a...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 10th of September, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Lollipop from Caldy Island, with ten persons on board, was drifting, with a rope round her pro- peller, near rocks...
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 10.40 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Polyana, of Kristian- sand, had wirelessed that she was mak- ing water and needed help. She was then between Westray...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshlre.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of November, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that six boys in a rowing boat off the North Head had only two oars between them and were in difficulties in the tide and heavy swell,...
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of January, 1950,the coastguard telephoned that the fishing boat Skylark, of Shoreham, working from Eastbourne, had not returned from early morning fishing.
As the...
MECHANIC SEES FLARE FROM MOTOR BOAT Hastings, Sussex. At 5.6 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1962, the motor mechanic noticed a red flare four miles south of the life-boat station.
He informed the honorary secretary,...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 10.50 on the evening of the 9th of March, 1960, the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at high water to go to the help of the local fishing vessel Anima- tion, which was in difficulties south of...
CUT OFF BY TIDE Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 9.35 a.m.
on 24th October, 1964, the coastguard told the life-boat mechanic that a man and a dog were cut off by the tide about five miles south-east of Pembrey. The tide was one...