AUGUST 12TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 4.5 in the morning a message was received from the king’s harbour master that a yacht was drifting dangerously near the rocks on the southern shore. A south-westerly gale was blowing and...
OCT. 25TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
Shortly before 9 A.M. the coastguard reported that the trawler Star of Victory, of Aberdeen, was ashore off Keiss, in Sinclair Bay. A light N.N.E. wind was blowing. The sea was smooth....
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—4th October, 1939. Distress signals had been re- ported but nothing could be found.
The life-boat was out for fifteen hours.
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DECEMBER 5TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down on a sandbank in the Lynn Channel, but nothing could be found.
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THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE On the 20th January, 1941, The Mumbles life-boat rescued the crew of ten of the S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM J. GAMMON was awarded the bronze medal.
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SEPTEMBER 30TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. A motor yacht had broken down in Dundrum Bay and had burnt flares, but she had been driven ashore before the lifeboat could reach her and her crew were able to land. The yacht was...
HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY On the 12th February, 1943, the Holyhead life-boat rescued the crew of fortyseven of the S.S. Castilian, of London.
COXSWAIN RICHARD JONES was awarded the bronze medal.
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JANUARY 28TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
The Norwegian steamer Faro, of Oslo, had gone ashore in Tarncliff Bay.
Deerness, but the crew of seven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus...