Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 9.20 on the morning of the 13th Septem- ber, 1961, the inspector of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that a man working on Tuskar Rock wanted to be brought to the mainland as his father was...
MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.30 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported that an S.O.S. was being flashed one mile N. by W. from the Haisborough coastguard lookout, and the Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.30 p.m. on i2th September, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht had capsized two miles north of Hartlepool.
There was a light north-easterly breeze with a calm sea. The...
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 10.45 P-m- on 5th July, 1967, a message was received that a small motor boat was in difficulties one mile west of the harbour. The lifeboat St. Andrew (Civil Service No. 10)slipped her moorings at n o'clock in a...
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. Two airmen had baled out of a British Defiant trainer aeroplane when its engine failed, but nothing was found, and it was learnt that the pilot had come down on shore. Later the body of...
12 July: Four teenagers and an adult found themselves powerless when their angling boat's engine failed. They were drifting towards rocks near Ardnamurchan Point, the most westerly part of the British...
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JUNE 21ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.45 P.M. a message was received that a Peterhead motor boat, the Boy, with two on board, had not returned, and the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5...
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
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Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—On the morning of the 4th of July, 1949, the sailing yacht Vagrant, of Belfast, left Helvick for Bantry against a strong westerly wind, but returned to Dun- garvan Harbour about half-past six in the evening, and...