Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 4.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of March, 1954, the Valentia radio station reported that the motor trawler Ross Corr, of Dublin, which had a crew of five, had broken down four miles south-east of Blasket Island. At...
MONTROSE, N.B..—On the llth April, at 2 P.M., when blowing hard from the N.E., the schooner Charm, of Montrose, bound from that port to Hartlepool, got ashore at the entrance of the river, and subsequently became a total wreck. The Lifeboat...
At 8.30 P.M.
on the 27th February a message was received from the Coastguard at Mundesley stating that a vessel was burning flares continually off" that place.
The Life-boat Louisa Heartwell was...
A telephone message was received from the Coastguard at 1.53 P.M. on the 6th January that the s.s. Jersey City, of Bideford, had broken down and was in distress ten miles off the Bishop Rock.
Preparations to launch the...
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 4.5 on the afternoon of the 29th of January, 1960, the life-boat /. G. Graves oj Sheffield was launched to the help of the motor boat Sceptre, which was in difficulties in worsening weather con- ditions one mile...
Flamborough, Yorkshire - At 4.50 p.m. on I5th August, 1967, the police informed the coxswain that a man was stranded in a cove about one mile north of the life-boat station. The coxswain and a police officer went to the scene where a youth...
Hastings, Sussex - At 4.48 p.m. on 17th August, 1966, red flares were reported off Camber. At 5.8 the life-boat Fairlight was launched to the fishing vessel Gratitude, which had a fouled propeller. It was an hour before high water. There was...
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Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 10.20 p.m. on 3151 August, 1966, a doctor was urgently required aboard the m.v. Hudson Strait, making for Yarmouth Roads. There was a light north west by westerly breeze with a slight sea. At n.8,...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At two o'clock on the morning of the llth of September, 1960, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick man aboard the Swedish steamer Arnold Bratt, which would make...