Selsey, Sussex. At 11.51 on the morn- ing of the 26th July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that it had been reported that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties one mile off the Marine Hotel. A fresh south- westerly...
Great Yarmouth and Goriest on, Norfolk.
—At 12.39 in the afternoon, on the 28th of May, 1950, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned that the Smith's Knoll Lightvessel had reported a yacht burning flares half a mile...
JUNE 22ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 P.M. a message was received from the Staithes coastguard that a three-masted vessel had fired distress rockets three and a half miles to the N.N.W. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing...
Crowded hour THE OUTBOARD ENGINE of an inflatable dinghy broke down just as she was clearing Shoreham Harbour eastern breakwater on the afternoon of Sunday, August 1. A message came from HM Coastguard at 1521, saying that the dinghy, with...
SICK MAN LANDED FROM TRAWLER Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.35 on the night of Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, the Stornoway coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Notts Forest of Grimsby, on passage to Stornoway to...
On. the 3rd December, during a strong W.S.W. gale, the steam lighter William Yule, of Kirk- caldy, whilst bound from Kirkcaldy to Leith, was unable to make way against the gale and drove down into Largo Bay.
Signals of...
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 3rd of August, 1949, the local fishing coble Isabella was at sea. As there was a heavy swell and the wind from the west was freshening, the life- boat The Cuttle was launched at 9.55.
JAN. 3RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the morning the sailing boat Roustabout, of Lowestoft, left harbour with a crew of four. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain, who had gone to the coastguard lookout, saw the boat...
AUGUST 29TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN
Signals of distress had been reported, but the life-boat found nothing, and later it was learnt that the signals had come from a fishing boat whose engine had failed, but it had started...
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—During a whole gale from south by west, accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 12th February, a message was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was ashore at the entrance of the harbour, signalling for assistance....