Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.^At 5.45 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Amethyst, of Buckie, which had a crew of nine, had run ashore on Trodday Island at the north end of Skye....
Lee shore FOLLOWING A MESSAGE from HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Lowestoft lifeboat station at 1853 on Sunday, July 18, that a longshore boat was flying a distress signal close to a lee shore between Covehithe and Benacre Ness,...
YACHT POOPED AND FLOODED IN HEAVY BREAKERS Rhyl, Flintshire. On Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the yacht Fiji, of New Brighton, was bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of two, but she was overtaken by bad weather and decided to make...
NOVEMBER 8TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.
At 8.45 at night the coastguard reported a red flare, and a few minutes later the position was given as north-west-by-west, ten miles from Peel. A very strong north-west wind was blowing,...
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 1.25 in the morning of the 22nd of May, 1943, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore at Kettleness. A light northerly wind was blowing, the weather was fine and the sea was smooth....
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On the 24th.
December, during a strong wind from S.S.W., signals of distress were observed from the brig Fuchsia, of Whitby. The.
Aldborough life-boat was quickly launched and proceeded to her assistance....
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Mr R. Marr, of Dunbar, East Lothian, and Ex-Coxswain Calum Macdonald, of Stornoway, Outer HebridesMr Calum Macdonald, former coxswain of the Stornoway lifeboat, was one of three people to receive the freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at the...
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