NOVEMBER 12TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
A fishing boat had broken adrift from a steamer which had her in tow, but the steamer recovered her. - Rewards, £6 10s..
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A second attempt a fortnight later began with a favourable light wind and ended in thick fog when the crew could barely see the length of the boat. 'All kinds of ghostly shapes and spectral ships, all manner of imaginary noises and...
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow, and Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—8th September, 1939. Shortly before midnight reports had been received that flares from a vessel ashore on Blackwater Bank had been seen. Both life-boats searched without success, and...
Ramsgate, Kent.—26th October, 1939.
A vessel had been reported as showing blue flares, but nothing was found.— Rewards, £11 14s. 9d..
WOMAN TO HOSPITAL At 12.30 p.m. on 2yth August, 1965, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a woman patient to Rossaveel on the mainland. As no other suitable boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson put...
Galway Bay. At 5.30 p.m. on i8th February, 1966, the local medical officer of health informed the honorary secretary that he had taken a woman patient from Inishmaan Island to Kilronan in a small fishing boat, but due to weather conditions...
HELP FOR PATIENT At 6.30 p.m. on i8th September, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young girl was suffering from acute appendicitis, and that no other suitable boat was available to take her to the mainland. There was...
JULY 16TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Signals of distress wereheard, but the life-boat could find nothing.- Permanent paid crew : Rewards, £4 7s..
MARCH 29TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE, AND RHYL, FLINTSHIRE.
Airmen were reported to have baled out over the sea, but the life-boats found nothing. - Rewards : Llandudno, £21 13s. 6d. ; Rhyl, £27 9s....