CROMER.'—A vessel was observed on the morning of the 28th January, some distance to the northward of Cromer, labouring very heavily and apparently very deep in the water, with a signal of distress flying. The Benjamin Bond Cdblell...
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...
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 7.30 on the night of the 15th of March, 1948, local pilots reported that the reflection of flares could be seen off Creadon Head and at eight o'clock, with Mr. A. Westcott Pitt, the honorary...
Walmer, Kent..—At 11.16 on night of the 14th of June, 1948, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning a flare and her crew shouting for help half a mile north-east of Leathercoat Point, and the motor life-boat Langham, on...
Dover, Kent.—At half past six in the evening of the 13th of August, 1949, a rowing boat which had been stolen from Dover was reported to be between St. Margarets Bay and Langdon Bay with two men on board. The life-boat Southern Africa was...
At 9 p.m. on 28th January, 1967, a small boat with two men on board was reported missing after leaving for Reenard at 6.45. The life-boat Rowland Watts left her moorings at 9.25 and searched for the missing boat. There was a gale force...
JANUARY 7TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At ten o’clock in the morning a telephone message was received from Rush that the motor fishing boat Guiding Light, with a crew of five, had gone out fishing the day...
Overdue THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND motor fishing vessel Ard Carna put out from Greencastle, Lough Foyle, on Thursday April 28 to fish white fish. She had a crew of five and was expected back on the Friday or Saturday. At 2200 on Saturday April...
22nd September. A yacht had been seen flying a flag which the coxswain thought was a,t half-mast as a signal of distress, but when the life-boat arrived she found that this was not so and the yacht was in no need of help.—Rewards, £10...
Whitby's D Class inflatable on the sen/ice referred to by Nick Botham, when she ferried a party of 27 school children and three teachers - who had been cut off by the tide - out to the station's 44ft Waveney.
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