ON the 29th August the s.s. Lynburn, of Workington, while bound from Cork to Whitehaven with a cargo of timber, struck a mine in the vicinity of the North Arklow Light Vessel. The Wicklow Motor Life-boat immediately proceeded to the...
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Three saved from dismasted catamaran in storm conditionsP) lymouth's Arun class City of Plymouth made headline news locally when she went to the aid of the 35ft catamaran Myros. which had been dismasted in storm force winds on Thursday...
Redcar, and Tees mouth, Yorkshire.— At 6.32 P.M. on the 25th October, 1939, a message was received from the Salt- burn coastguard, that a resident at Skinningrove had seen three red flares showing well out to sea. A strong, W.N.W. wind...
Redcar, and Tees mouth, Yorkshire.— At 6.32 P.M. on the 25th October, 1939, a message was received from the Salt- burn coastguard, that a resident at Skinningrove had seen three red flares showing well out to sea. A strong, W.N.W. wind...
APRIL 17TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 5 P.M.. a message was received at Ramsey from the coastguard that an aeroplane had sighted a vessel showing distress signals about five miles to the southeast of Ramsey, and at 5.40 the...
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Freelance journalist Moira Kerr has donated £300 of her prize money to Oban RNLI, having scooped the title of ‘Diageo Journalist
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REFLOATING A STRANDED STEAMER Caister, Norfolk.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of January llth, 1947, a steamer was seen to have stranded on the Caister Shoal, half a mile east by south of the life-boat station. She made distress...
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 11.22 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the Cromer coastguard telephoned the Cromer life-boat station that the R.A.F. at Neatishead had reported a Meteor aircraft as having...
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 5.51 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a Trinity House vessel had reported that she had seen red flares south-west of North Race Buoy. At 6.13 he reported another flare...