Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 6.38 On the evening of the 19th of August, 1957, the civic guard at Bray reported that some sea anglers from Inchinore were in difficulties in a small motor boat five miles east-south-east of Bray Head. They...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 2nd of Septem- ber, 1957, the coastguard passed on a message from the Norwegian steamer Manx that a yacht was in difficulties about one mile west of the West Sunk buoy. The life-boat...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 8.20 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1958, the Bailey lighthouse keeper telephoned the honorary secretary to say a radio message had been received from Tusker Rock lighthouse that a trawler was adrift...
Kirkcudbright.—At 9.10 on the even- ing of the 16th of July, 1954, a man at Kippford rang up to say that a boat with Sea Cadets on board had stranded off Southerness lighthouse, and that her crew were waving. At 9.42 the life-boat J. B....
Troon, Ayrshire.—At one o'clock early on the morning of the 24th of July, 1954, the Kildonan coastguard tele- phoned that the police had reported that a woman, who had been taken ashore from the converted fishing boat Silver Craig, had...
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 22nd of August, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Dido, of Portreath, which had put out from Portreath the even- ing before with a crew of three, had not returned...
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1956, the coxswain reported that a local lobster boat Carraig Airz was flying a distress signal off the Aran coast.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...
RUDDERS JAMMED At. 5.2 a.m. on i8th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had gone onto the rocks at Foreness in a fresh northwesterly breeze and moderate sea. He was keeping the vessel under...
SMALL BOAT ADRIFT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 7th October, 1964, the stageman told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in midstream off Brazil buoy, in the river Mersey. Three men were on board and she was...
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 5.38 in the evening on the 22nd of February, 1950, the coxswain saw a fishing boat drifting on to the rocks off Cromwell Point, clearly in need of prompt help. Seven minutes later the life-boat...