MARCH 29TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £19 5s. 6d..
The fishing smack Wellesley, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour at dead low-water, during a gale of wind from the S.E. and a heavy sea, at 7.30 P.M., on the 19th March, took the ground outside the pier and drove on to the beach.<...
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIBE.—The Herbert Ingram Life-boat was launched at 11.40 P.M. on the 8th of January, and took the master and crew of the smack Pet, of Grimsby, oif to their vessel, which was at anchor about a mile from the Lifeboat Station...
BALCARY.—The schooner City of Perth, of and for Creetown, from Liverpool in ballast, was reported to be in distress on Bascarral shore on the 27th January. A strong breeze was blowing from the S.W.
and the sea was heavy. At...
The schooner Eleanor, of New Quay, Cardiganshire, .was seen on the Constable Bank, off Rhyl, on the evening of the 2nd June, with a signal of distress flying. The tubular Life-boat Morgan was launched as soon as practicable to her assistance...
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The No. 1 Life-boat Gfrace Darling was launched at noon on the 15th February to the assistance of the fishing-boats which were in danger, a strong wind and a very heavy sea having sprung up since they had gone to...
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat Ellen and Eliza was launched at 5.45 A.M. on the 16th February, and proceeded to the s.s. Minerva, of Sunderland, which had stranded on Quarry Point in a strong breeze from S. by E., a moderate sea,...
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Gem was informed by the Coastguard at 2.40 A.M.
on the 19th April that a vessel was on the rocks. He immediately proceeded to the boat-house and took steps to assemble the crew. The boat was...
SUNDERLAND.—The brig Prince Consort, of Faversham, was being towed to Sunderland in ballast when, on the 2nd September, the steam-tug ran ashore in a thick fog and was followed by the brig.
Signals of distress were...
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 12.5 in the afternoon of the 27th of March, 1949, the Portland Bill coastguard reported a small motor yacht in distress, apparently broken down and drifting.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat William...