SOME record, although brief, of our hea- viest storms may prove useful for reference at some future day, when the whole subject of shipwreck comes to be inquired into, as sooner or later it must. The disastrous gale of September last, which...
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Launches 75 Lives rescued 31
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At 4.45 in the afternoon the sailing boat, St. Brendon, of Dungarvan, was sailing round the Black Rock in Dungarvan harbour. She had five on board....
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John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The...
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PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal,...
WEXFORD.—While a moderate gale was blowing from W.S.W., with a rough sea and showers of hail, on the 3rd March, the fishing-yawl Annie, of Wexford, was observed stranded on the S. side of Wexford Bar, with the seas breaking over...
Girvan, Ayrshire.—Early on the afternoon of the 24th October the coastguard reported that a steamer off the harbour was flying distress signals.
A S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and the weather was thick,...