John and Naomi Beattie under sail during her historic passage to her original station at Aberystwyth. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesey David Jenkins). - View image in PDF
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On the 25th January the barque Bonnie Dundee, of Dun- dee, laden with coal, got on shore on the Newcome Sand, during a fresh gale with squalls from W.S.W. The Pakefield life- boat went off to her assistance, and on the vessel rilling and...
DECEMBER 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
During the morning a number of fishing boats put to sea. They were overtaken by a southerly gale, with a very rough sea. Several of the boats returned, but as six were still out at one...
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9.5 on the evening of the 6th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men were burning red flares from a small boat two miles north of Lowestoft harbour. At 9.15 the life-boat...
ST. ANNE'S.—Signals having been shown, and a three-masted vessel having been observed on the Horse Bank, during a strong gale of wind from the N.W. and a very heavy sea, the Nora, Royds Lifeboat was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 26th...
On the 15th August a youth was left in charge of a small boat called the Mizpah. He pushed off from the shore, but in doing so lost one of the oars, and in the pre- vailing gale quickly drifted out to sea.
He was seen...
Arklow, Co. Wlcklow.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that flares had been seen about three miles east-by-north of Arklow harbour.
At 7.47 the life-boat Inbhear A/or...
AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Bocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...