DEC. 19TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.25 A.M. news was received from the Castletown coastguard that a vessel was ashore at Langness Point. An E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy ground swell.
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On the night of the 15th January, three vessels which were at anchor in Dungarvan Pool were driven on the rocky shore at Ballin- acourty, the wind blowing a whole gale from the S. at the time. Two of them got so close to the shore that they...
Snow IN THE SEVERE SNOW STORMS last January lifeboatmen from several stations in Wales played an important part in helping to get medical supplies and food through to villages which were cut off by deep snow drifts and impassable roads and...
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Red Flares AT 7.4 p.m. on May 29 the Coastguard at Littlehampton, Sussex, told the honorarv secretary that he had receiveda call reporting red flares being fired six miles west south west of the harbour entrance.
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Whitehills, Banffshire. At 2.24 p.m.
on 28th November, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported that a man had fallen over the cliff at Troup Head and could be in the sea. The...
The Italian steamer Santagata, on the Goodwin Sands, from which the Walmer life-boat rescued the crew of 32 (Seepage 169). - View image in PDF
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