NOVEMBER 14TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. At 8.15 at night the life-boat coxswain was informed by the officer of Naval Motor Launch 535 that a landing craft had run ashore at Newford Island Point. A fresh north-by-east wind was blowing,...
St. Ives, Cornwall.—-At 4.43 in the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the local pleasure boat Reaper, with a boat- man and twelve passengers aboard, had struck a rock between Wicca Point and Zennor Point,...
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 9.50 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, information was received that the trawler Delga I of Grimsby had an injured man on board and required a doctor. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with a...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.25 on the 23rd of May, 1959, the coast- guard told the motor mechanic that the police at Brighton had reported a dinghy in difficulties one mile east of the King Alfred swimming baths at Hove. One minute...
On the evening of the 4th October the steamer Bap, of Lillesand, Norway, when making for Stornoway for coal, struck the Chicken Rock and was beached in Branahuie Bay. The master of the steamer proceeded on the morning of the 5th idem to...
The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 8.22 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor boat Pinda had left Mullion at three o'clock to go on a fishing trip between Mullion and Penzance. There were three people,...
GREEK STEAMER AGROUND ON THE NEEDLES Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.26 in the morning of January 5th, 1947, the Totland coastguard reported to the life-boat station by telephone that a message had been received from a vessel aground near...
At 11.45 P.M. on the 12th September the steamer Cape Colonna was seen to bs out of control when entering the river, owing to the strong N.E. wind, heavy sea and tide. She shortly afterwards grounded on the " Black Middens," and the...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 27th of October, 1960, a strong easterly wind was blowing and there was a rough sea. The tide was ebbing. As conditions at the harbour entrance were becoming worse and two local fishing...
After a severe storm which was experienced here on the 24th August had somewhat abated, about 200 of the fishing-boats put to sea, but at nightfall a gale of much violence came on from the N.N.W., and those of the crews who had not cast...