Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 7th of June. 1956, the Sonthend coastguard reported that a steam lighter had fired three orange flares off Uguadale Point in Kil- brannan Sound. The life-boat City of Glasgow II put...
Cromer, Norfolk. — At 1.57 in the afternoon of the 19th of November, 1949, the coastguard- telephoned that the S.S. Suntrap, of London, had sig- nalled that she would arrive off Cromer about 3.15 and had asked for the life- boat to land a...
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.35, on the evening of the 24th of July, 1950, the palice reported that a boy had fallen over the 400 feet cliffs at Maug- hold Head. He was so seriously injured that he could not be carried up the cliff. The...
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the night of the 30th of April, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a local resident had reported a wireless message from the motor fishing vessel Maid of Honour, of Lerwick. She had broken down off Brethren...
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 28th of December, 1951, the master of the motor vessel Fran- cine, of Antwerp, who had come ashore to get stores, reported that the Francine was drifting ashore a hundred yards off Weymouth...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 31st of January, 1952, the police reported that the S.S. Capitol, of London, wanted to land a sick man and would be off the harbour about four o'clock. She arrived at...
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the morning of the 12th November a motor boat from H.M.S. Lucia ran aground on the south end of the northern arm of the breakwater at Portland harbour. Shewas reported by the Royal Naval Police at Bincleaves, and the...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 30th of May, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that two yachts, taking part in the Cowes to Cherbourg race, had gone aground on Shingles Bank near Elbow Buoy, but they had...
Sunderland, Durham.—At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of March, 1954, the Whitburn police told the coast- guard that three boys were adrift in a punt a mile east of Souter lighthouse.
The coastguard telephoned the life-...
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 8.52 on the evening of the 30th of August, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message that a fishing boat was making distress signals off the Barmouth Fairway buoy. At 9.20 the life-boat...