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Madre Dolorosa
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 10th September, 1961, the honorary secre- tary was informed by the manager of a film company that the trawler Madre Dolorosa had grounded on the west bank about a hundred...
A Speed Boat (1)
TWO LIFE-BOAT MEN INJURED Falmouth, Cornwall. At 11.53 p.m.
on 7th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a speed boat with three people on board was missing. The boat had last been seen twelve miles south of Falmouth....
A Dinghy
COLD AND EXHAUSTED MEN GIVEN RUM Youghal, Co. Cork. At 3.15 on the afternoon of Thursday the 22nd August, 1963, the coxswain saw a capsized dinghy outside the harbour. At 3.25 the life-boat Herbert John was launched in a fresh south-westerly...
Kyle Prince
Holyhead, Anglesey.—On the night of the 8th October, 1938,the City of Bradford I, doing temporary duty at Holyhead, went out in a gale to the steamer Kyle Prince, of Liverpool, and rescued her crew of nine.—Rewards, The thanks of the...
A Lancaster Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 24TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
The instruments of a Lancaster bombing aeroplane failed while she was returning from Berlin and the airmen, instead of being at 1,000 feet as they reckoned, found themselves in the...
Velma
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 1.15 in the early morning of the 14th of July, 1952, the life-boat Mary Scott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched in response to a call from the Gorton Lightvessel, received through the...
A Naval Vessel
JANUARY 8TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
During the evening a request was received at the pier for a doctor to be sent to a naval vessel in the Bristol Channel. As no other suitable boat was available the motor lifeboat Rosabella...
Mervic (1)
Bude, Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall; and Clovelly, North Devon - At 9.40 a.m. on 22nd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the Bude honorary secretary that distress flares from a large white boat had been seen two miles west of Lower...
Trustful (1)
DEC. 21ST. PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5.55 P.M. the coastguard reported that flares had been seen two miles south of Rattray Head. A light N.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The motor life-boat...