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Iron Horse
Penlee, Cornwall. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th September, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Iron Horse of Newcastle, which was making for Mount's Bay. He...
A Dinghy (6)
Swanage, Dorset - At noon on I4th August, 1966, a small sailing dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Durlston Head. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched immediately in a light south westerly wind and a slight sea. It was two hours after...
A Surf Board
Two calls A SURF BOARD sailor, sitting on his board trying without success to paddle back to shore against an offshore breeze was reported to the deputy launching authority of Ramsey lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1530 on Friday June 5...
The S.S. Alaska
Nov. 15TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX, AND B E M B R I D G E , I S L E O F W I G H T . A t 4.9 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Alaska, of Havre, a steamer of 8,000 tons, was in distress fourteen miles S.E. of the Owers...
The S.S. Margaret Lockington
FEBRUARY 28TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 4.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at five minutes past five. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very...
Lady Stuart
RHYL, NORTH WALES.—On the night of the 11th December, while the wind was blowing a gale from the N.N.W., the schooner Lady Stuart, of Chester, was lying to off Point Lynas under reefed sails, and eventually drifted with the flood-tide and...
Sophia, of Hull
On the 6th August the Life-boat Leicester, stationed at this place, rendered valuable assistance to the smack Sophia, of Hull, laden with coal, which ves- sel, while on a voyage from the Hnmber to London, got on the North Sand off Gor-...
Elise
In the very early morning of the llth February the schooner Elise, of Hernosand, outward bound from Shields with a cargo of coal, collided with a steamer when off Staithes. The steamer stood by the schooner until daybreak. A...
Fishing Boats (3)
Arbroath, Angus.—The local fishing fleet put out during the early morning of the 23rd November, 1938, in fine weather. Later on a S.E. wind sprang up and rapidly increased to gale force. The sea grew very rough, with heavy rain, sleet and...