Hoylake, Cheshire.—At eleven o'clock on the night of the 8th of June, 1956, a report was received by the coxswain that two men in a motor yacht anchored in Hoylake were showing lights and calling for help. At 11.32 the life-boat Oldham...
On the morning of the 26th September a strong south- erly breeze increased to a whole gale, making the sea very heavy at the harbour bar. The local motor fishing boats Comfort, Enterprise, Widgeon and Rosa were at sea, and the motor life-...
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 4.5 in the afternoon, on the 14th of January, 1951, the Mablethorpe coastguard tele- phoned that the Gorleston superintend- ent of Trinity House had asked for the life-boat to land a sick man from the Humber...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.36 in the afternoon of the 5th of February, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Poole Channel, of London, had wirelessed that she was making for Great Yarmouth with an injured...
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of December, 1948, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay, and that another trawler was standing by, but could not help. The...
Cadgwith and The Lizard, Cornwall.— On the night of the 14th February the life-boat coxswain saw a steamer run aground at Lean Water, half a mile W. of Cadgwith. She was the s.s. Lackenby, of West Hartlepool, with a crew of thirty-one, and...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of the 4th of September.
1959, the honorary secretary received a message from the lighthouse-keeper at South Gare that a vessel had gone ashore in the River Tees....
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF U.S. NAVAL VESSEL Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the United States naval vessel Upshur, which was 32 miles north-east of...
FISHING BOAT ESCORTED OVER BAR Wbitby, Yorkshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 16th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the weather was likely to become worse, and that an easterly gale was forecast as...
SAILS WERE TORN Exmouth, South Devon. At 1.30 p.m.
on 4th November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor in rough seas and near gale force north-easterly winds close to...