Wick, Caithness-shire.—28th Octo- ber, 1939. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the crew of two had been picked up by a trawler.—• Rewards, £9 19s. 6d..
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 2nd of April, 1948, the Duncannon police tele- phoned that a small boat was in distress, and the motor life-boat Duke of Con- naught, on temporary duty at the station, was...
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—In the morn- ing of the 15th of September, 1948, a sudden north-easterly gale sprang up, two fishing boats were seen to be in difficulties about one and a half miles to the southward, and at 10.50 the motor life-boat...
Scaiborough, Yorkshire.—At 6.44 in the evening of the 5th of December, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that flares could be seen one mile north by east of Burniston, and the motor life- boat Herbert Joy II was lauriched at 6.55. The...
Fowey, Cornwall.—About 5.40 in the evening of the 28th of August, 1949, the Polruan coastguard reported a vessel in distress three miles east-south-east of Mevagissey, and at 6 o'clock the life- boat C.D.E.C. was launched in a light...
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1954, a police officer rang up to say that he had seen someone waving in a fishing boat one mile north of Heugh Light.
The boat appeared to have broken...
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—On the after- noon of the 29th of November, 1954, the motor fishing vessel White Heather, of Berwick, fouled her propeller off St.
Abbs. At 3.5 the life-boat W. Ross Macarthur of Glasgow was launched...
Captain Alexander Finlayson, D.S.C., honorary secretary of the Storn- oway station branch, was appointed M.B'.E. in the 1956 New Year Honours..
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Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.—At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 14th of Novem- ber, 1952, the Holyhead coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from a doctor on Bardsey Island asking for the life-boat to take a seriously sick...
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 6.42 on the morning of the 25th of De- cember, 1952, the coastguard telephonedthat a message had been received from the tanker Fort Moultre, of New York, which was anchored in Swansea Bay, that she had a...