STRANDED ON ISLAND Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 5.25 p.m. on i3th March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had seen a number of people on Sully Island who could not get back to the mainland because it was...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—6th January.
Shortly after 11.30 A.M. information was received through the coastguard that the drifter Feasible, of Lowestoft, was in distress off Strumble Head. A moderate S.W.gale was blowing,...
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 3.48 on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1957, the coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized in Filey Bay.
The life-boat The Isa and Penryn Milsted was launched at 4.5 in a moder- ate swell....
Arbroath, Angus. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of February, 1960, the fishing boat White Rose, which was returning from the fishing grounds, was seen by the coxswain to be off the harbour bar in a confused sea.
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Appledore, Devon. At 3.30 p.m. on 18th April, 1965, the coxswain was informed by the Clovelly second coxswain that the cabin cruiser Cleave Petrel of Bideford, sheltering in Lundy Roads, would try and cross the bar on the next tide. There...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.31 on the evening of the 20th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that an open boat with an out- board motor had broken down and was drifting about two miles off...
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7 a.m. on 7th March, 1967, it was reported that the m.v. Emerald of Glasgow was aground on Feolin Spit in the Sound of Islay but was in no immediate danger. The mechanic was maintaining R/T contact with the vessel....
The Albert Edward life-boat at Pad- stow saved the crew of 3 men of the smack Telegraph, of Port Isaac, which had stranded on the Doom Bar.
FLEET WOOD.—On the night of the 18th September the barque Charles Ohattoner, of Fleetwood, bound for that port from Quebec, with timber, was endeavouring to make the harbour in tow of a steam-tug; but the steamer was not sufficiently...
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. — At 8.45, on the evening of the 25th of September, 1950, the lighthouse keeper reported a message that a member of the crew of the new tanker London Pride, which was carrying out trials, was in need of hospital...