Peel, Isle of Man.—At 5.10 P.M. on the 5th December, 1938, the coastguard reported flares six miles N.N.E.
of Peel. A strong and freshening S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
The...
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.15 in the early morning of the 18th of August, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard tele- phoned that a boat was burning red flares off Sandsfoot Castle, Portland, and that the naval authorities were sending a tug. At 3.30...
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN At 7.35 p.m. on 3ist August, 1965, the Prawle Point coastguard reported that the crew of two of a small boat half a mile south-west of Start Point were waving clothing and that the boat appeared to be drifting. At 7.46...
On the night of the 18th January the watchman reported flares and rockets in the neighbourhood of the Splough Rock, and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was launched. As usual, Mr. W. J. B.
Moncas, the branch...
At about 7 o'clock on the following morning flares were shown by a vessel in distress in Corton Eoads. The wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was rough at the time. The Lowestoft Lifeboat proceeded to her assistance, and found...
THURSO.—During a very strong gale from the N.E. and a high sea, on the 31st January, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Debonair, of Wick, bound from Castlehill for Newcastle with stone, which was riding in a somewhat dangerous...
It was blowing fresh at S.E., on the 24th February, -when the schooner Jessie Brown, of Yarmouth, from Yarmouth to Belfast, got ashore on Scroby Sand. The Life-boat 'Leicester launched just before dark, and succeeded in bring- ing on...
PORTMADOC.—At 3 P.M. on the 14th October, during stormy weather, the schooner Breton, of Fowey, was observed to be showing a signal of distress. The Life-boat John Ashbury was immediately manned, and by the time she was afloat the vessel had...
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—The barque Ceres, of Eonne, bound from Cronstadt for Berwick with a cargo of battens, in trying to enter the harbour, on the evening of the 24th August, struck on the bar and was driven by the heavy seas on Spittal Beach,...
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—The Coastguard on duty haying observed a vessel aground on the East Hoyle bank, while a S.W.
gale was blowing with a rough sea on the 29th May, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat Coard William Sguarey...