A TOW IN A ROUGH SEA Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of November, 1947, a motor fishing boat was seen one mile to the westward, apparently broken down. On being signalled she replied that she did not need...
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.—• At about 12.45 in the morning of the 27th of April, 1948, it was reported to the coastguard that the local motor fishing boat Largo Bay, which had gone out during the evening of the previous day had not...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About a quarter to five in the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had reported five people marooned on a sandbank between Naze Point and Stone Banks Buoy. The motor...
Torbay, Devon.—At 1.55 in the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1948, the Brixham coastguard tele- phoned that a motor cruiser was on fire three-quarters of a mile south- south-west of Berry Head, and the motor life-boat George Shee was...
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 12.45 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1948, the steam trawler Barry Castle, of Swansea, left Castlebay har- bour, but a quarter of an hour later she ran aground at the entrance. She blew her steam...
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.15 in the evening of the llth of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea, and at half past six the life-boat Jane Holland, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 11.35 P.M. on the 16th April, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was in distress off Beachy Head, and as the Eastbourne life-boat was oft service for overhaul, the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
New Quay and Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.
—At 1.40 P.M. on the 31st May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Peggy, of New Quay, with two men on board, had put out at 2 A.M.
and was long...
THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its testimonial on vellum to Mr. Harry Davis of Camborne, who swam out from a cave near St. Ives on the 9th of August, 1958, in order to summon help for a party stranded in the cave. As a result the St....
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Ballycotton, Co. Cork. — At eleven in the morning of the 13th of March, 1952, a man left Cork for Ballycotton in a motor punt. He had not arrived by eight o'clock that night. The keepers of the Power Head Lighthouse, eight miles west of...