NORTH SUNDEBRLAND. — The Longstone Lighthouse signalled early on the morning of the 14th June that a vessel was in distress. At 1.35 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and found the barque Formica of Arendal, laden with battens, had...
Informa- tion having been received on the llth October that a vessel was ashore on the West Hoyle Bank, steps were taken to verify it, and at 5.35 P.M. signals were fired for the Life-boat. With all despatch the H. 0. Powell was launched and...
Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.30 on the night of the 26th of Mav, 1953. a man rang up to say that the motor fishing boat Brenjean, of Yar- mouth, had gone aground on the south side of the entrance to Castlebay har- bour. At...
TROUBLE WITH NETS Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 10 p.m. on 26th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four cobles, situated north-east of Newbiggin Church Point, were at sea in worsening weather conditions. The...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 8.30 p.m. on 29th January, 1965, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the M.F.V. Moira Herd was aground at Red Beacon, Holm Head. The lifeboat James and Margaret Boyd proceeded to the casualty at...
Margate, Kent.—On the morning of the 14th October, 1939, a sailing barge was seen dragging her anchor off Margate Jetty. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and it was decided to send out the motor lifeboat Lord Southborough...
Wick, Caithness-shire - At 3.10 p.m. on 24th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Boy Peter was ashore on the south side of Proudfoot.
The fishing vessel Bluebell was also...
At 8.30 P.M. on the 9th July, during thick weather, a telephone message was received at Cemaes stating that the services of the Life-boat Charles Henry Ashley were required. The Life-boat was launched without loss of time, and proceeded to...
THURSO. — The schooner Clarence G.Sinclair, of Wick, coal laden from the Tyne for Thurso, while lying at anchor in Scrabster Roadstead, signalled for help, as a strong gale was blowing from the N.E., there was a heavy sea to which the vessel...