DUTCH COASTER AGROUND IN GALE Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. At 12.30 early on the morning of the 20th December, 1962, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch coaster was burning flares and was drifting towards the...
FRENCH TRAWLER TOWED THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Gal way Bay. At 1.30 on the morning of the 17th April, 1963, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a French trawler needed help ten miles south-west of North Aran light. The life-boat...
Morecambe, August 10, 1986: Morecambe was one of the three stations at which the prototype Evans/Avon D class inflatable lifeboat had been on trial. The station's new lifeboat, funded by the bequest of Mr and Mrs William Herring in... - View image in PDF
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OCT. 20TH. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 2.10 P.M. a message was received from the senior naval officer that the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, had been sunk by enemy action fifteen to twenty miles east of Flugga, and that the...
Fouled propeller stops Northern Star On Sunday. 12 August, Bantry Coast Guard Radio received a request for assistance from the fishing trawler Northern Star. She had a fouled propeller and was unable to free herself. The Castletownbere Arur...
MAY 8TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN.
At 6 A.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Bangor asking for the life-boat to go to a vessel in distress off Portpatrick on the coast of...
MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.30 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported that an S.O.S. was being flashed one mile N. by W. from the Haisborough coastguard lookout, and the Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was...
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with a...
AUGUST 28TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At ten at night the coastguard telephoned that a light had been seen to the south. A south-south-west gale was blowing and the sea was very rough. A watch was kept, and when a flare...
The barque Cabinet, of Newcastle, went on the Manacle Rocks, off the Cornish coast, on the night of the 11th Jan., after she had been de- tained in the Channel for more than a week through stress of weather. It was blowing strongly at the...