OCTOBER 14TH.. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. On the night of the 13th the Carne look-out post reported that it had heard a ship give three blasts on her whistle near Findale Perch, and thought she must have gone aground. The weather was...
BIyth, Northumberland; Dunbar,'Haddingtonshire ; Buckie, Banffshire ; Lerwick, Shetland.—27th-31st January. The Russian steamer Irtysch, while bound from West Hartlepool to Leningrad had run into a severe gale and been driven north. She...
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At ap- proximately 5.30 on the afternoon of the 4th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a member of the crew of the tanker San Casto, of London, had been injured. At 6.10 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out...
LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS HELICOPTER Clovelly, Devon. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday the 1st of September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been injured on Lundy Island. A helicopter which was to fly...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—About half past four on the morning of the 15th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was showing flares off Bayble, seven miles from Stornoway. At 5.15 the life-boat William and Harriet was...
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Margate, Kent. At 12.43 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties off Birchington and that one of her crew was waving an oar to attract...
Salcombe, Devon.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1954, a man swimming off Gara Rocks wasreported to be in danger. At 1.30 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was launched. The sea was choppy and a moderate...
The cobles were off fishing on the 2nd April in a E.N.E. breeze when the sea commenced to grow and rendered their return very dangerous. In the absence of the coxswain with the fishermen, the signal- man of the Life-boat James Oowland very...
MAN WITH INJURED HAND LANDED Boulmer, Northumberland. The Tynemouth coastguard inquired at 10.32 on the evening of Wednesday the 18th September, 1963, if it was possible to launch the Boulmer life-boat to land an injured man from the 25-ton...