Clovelly, Devon. At 4.45 on the after- noon of the 18th of July, 1960, a message was received that the owner of Lundy Island had injured his hand so badly that he needed medical attention urgently. No other boat being available, the...
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.45 on the morning of the 1st of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that nine motor fishing boats were at sea. A south- easterly gale was blowing, and there were fierce rain squalls and...
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Embrace of Hartlepool had fouled her propeller two miles north of the Heugh and was...
Douglas, Isle of Man. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received through Anglesey radio that the motor vessel Caltex Lisbon had a seaman on board...
Cloughey, Co. Down. At 10.32 on the morning of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from a woman living in Ballywater that a boat was said to have disappeared near Buckie Pots off Burial Island...
TOW TO RAMSGATE At 10.32 a.m. on the following day the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a yacht was making heavy weather on passage off Ramsgate. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out at 10.45 i° a...
Out of Wedlock! The oldest swinger in town, in the form of Fred Wedlock, who made the hit song a favourite with the medallionwielding young-at-heart, provided an evening of all-round entertainment for the regulars of The Cross Inn, near... - View image in PDF
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JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the Rock Buoy. At...
Llanddulas, NORTH WALES,—On the same morning (14th May), the brigantine St. Olaf, of and from Mandal, Norway, laden with pit-props, for Connah's Quay, near Chester, capsized when about three miles out at sea, off Llanddulas, and her crew...
The schooner Brenton, of Fowey, was observed with signals of distress flying, on the Skull Martin Rock, near Ballywalter, on the 4th December. The wind was blow- ing very fresh from N. to N.E., and a heavy sea was running at the time, render...