PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—The trawler Annie, of Brixham, while attempting to come into Padstow on the 13th February, grounded on the " Doombar." There was a heavy ground sea and strong W.S.W. gale at the time, andshe no sooner struck than...
Night search EXMOUTH DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY was informed by HM Coastguard at 0117 on Wednesday, July 28, that a Mirror Class dinghy, with a crew of two, was long overdue. In good visibility and with a gentle north-westerly breeze and...
JANUARY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The coastguard reported a steamer ashore half a mile N.E. of Palling, and at 10.10 A.M.
the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. A strong easterly wind was...
AUGUST 23RD. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
About six o’clock in the evening the coastguard reported a small motor vessel aground at the mouth of the River Ugie, two miles north of Peterhead, with a fishing boat standing by....
Four lifeboats evacuate hundreds from severe flooding Inshore lifeboats on the North Wales coast were once again called in to help with relief work when floods hit the Llandudno area on 10 and 11 June 1993.
D class...
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. —• At 8.10 in the evening on the 19th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that men had been seen waving from a small boat about five miles north by east of Peter- head, and the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of...
FOR the rescue of six people from a motor fishing boat on the 21st February, 1968, Coxswain George Jappy of Buckie has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry.
At 12.40 a.m. on that day, the Buckie...
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Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1955, the coastguard reported that he had seen red flares three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the coastguard sta- tion. At 5.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens put...
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Howth, Co. Dublin. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1959, the Baily lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a doctor was needed to attend a woman ex- pecting a baby on Lambay Island.
The weather...