Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. At 12.50 p.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the police told the honorary secretary that a motor boat had capsized five to six miles north of Aberystwyth. At 12.55 the inshore rescue boat launched in a fresh south-westerly...
THIS national and benevolent Institution held its Annual Meeting at Willis's Rooms on the 20th May. The Right Hon. EARL MANVERS, one of its Vice-Presidents, in the Chair. Amongst those present we observed Sir CHARLES ROWLEY, Bart.,...
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On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to Barry, but had had engine trouble when near Holyhead, become...
HOLYISLAND.—A terrible snowstorm was experienced on the 6th February, and the wind increasing to a gale from S.S.E. a heavy sea sprung up. Twelve of the fishing-boats were unable to take the harbour, and ran ashore N. of Emanuel Head, their...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.— At seven o'clock in the morning of the 14th of April, 1952, the keeper of the Hook Tower Lighthouse telephoned that the schooner Saint Austell, of Howth, bound for New York with a crew of two, was...
STRANDED ON SANDS At 5.50 p.m. on 7th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing yacht, stranded on the Goodwin sands due east of the station, needed help. Choppy seas were breaking over the five-ton Moonstone...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 9.5 on the evening of the 13th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Horseshoe Bay and had been seriously injured. At 9.11, when the life- boat Jesse...
A FOUR HOURS' SEARCH Swanage, Dorset.—At 5.24 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1947, the coastguard reported distress signals about five miles south-by-west of the station. The motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 5.45 in...
Five saved as fishing vessel drags ashore in storm force winds Arocky cove backed with high cliffs is no place to be when a severe onshore gale, gusting to Storm Force, is pounding the coast, but that is exactly the situation Coxswain Pat...
Gourdon, Kincardineshire At 4.20 A.M. on the 12th August, 1938, the coastguard reported that the steam trawler Hood, of Aberdeen, was ashore about half a mile east of Johnshaven.
She had a crew of eleven on board and was...