BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—The barque Forest Queen, of Belfast, bound from Dublin for Norway in ballast, was reported to be in distress about five miles distant from the Life-boat station, and in danger of being driven on the sandbanks during a...
On the 19th Sep- tember, the brig Oscar, of Tonsberg, was stranded, and afterwards became a total wreck amongst the rocks a short distance from St. Andrew's Harbour, during a strong easterly gale. The St. Andrew's life-boat was...
PETERHEAD.—On the 13th April the Life-boat George Pickard was launched at 2.20 P.M. to the assistance of a fishing boat which was in danger, her mast having been carried away in a whole gale from S.E. and a heavy sea. Other boats, however,...
NEW BRIGHTON.—A telephone message havisg been received on the night of the 28th March reporting a vessel stranded on Crosby Beach, the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland left her moorings at 11.20 and proceeded through a heavy sea, the...
THE town of Ramsgate has decided, in celebration of the jubilee of its incor- poration as a borough, to apply for the grant of supports to the borough arms. After consulting with Sir Gerald Wollaston, M.V.O., Garter King of Arms, she has...
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MOTOR BOAT BROKEN DOWN Newhaven, Sussex.—At about eleven o'clock on the night of the 13th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported a boat in distress burning flares two miles south-west by west of Newhaven, and the motor life-boat John and...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.25 in the evening of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat, with three Royal Air Force cadets on board, was in difficulties about half a mile to the eastward of Salt Island Point,...
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—At 4.30 in the afternoon of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that the motor fishing boat Bluebell, of Port Seton, with a crew of seven, had broken down nine miles to the north-east, and the motor...
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. •— At five in the evening of the 15th of No- vember, 1948, an urgent call was received for the life-boat to take a woman, who was suffering with acute appendicitis, to Lochboisdale, in South Uist. The...
Dungeness, Kent. —At 11.50 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1949, the Lade coastguard reported a dinghy off Littlestone making distress signals, and at noon the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a light breeze with...