Portrush, Co. Antrim-.—On the llth of July, 1951, H.M.S. St. Kitts was visiting Portrush. Two ratings went ashore for stores; but sudden bad weather prevented them going aboard again with them. The St. Kitts' Com- manding Officer...
Sunderland, Durham.—At 5.47 on the night of the 4th of November, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was close to the rocks to the eastward and signalling for tugs. A fresh south- easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 6.20...
Mallaig, Inner Hebrides.—The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moor- ings at 6.30 in the evening of the 21st of March, 1948, in a south-west gale with a rough sea, to the help of a canoe.
She found her on the beach....
Amble, Northumberland.—In the late afternoon of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Wind- sor Queen, of London, which was off Coquet Island, had an injured man on board, and the motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton, on...
On the evening of the 26th of July, 1954, the Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire, life-boat Aguila Wren, after standing by for an hour in rough seas with a gale blowing from the south- west, rescued three people from the motor fishing vessel Lindy...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 8.15 on the morning of the 3rd of Septem- ber, 1954, the coxswain noticed that the yacht Squall, of Belfast, which was anchored in the harbour, was dragging towards the pier. At 8.30 the life-boat Douglas...
Dungeness, Kent. — At 9.30 on the morning of the 31st of October, 1953, the life-boat signalman reported that a fishing boat had taken in tow a dis- masted yacht, the Grania, of Ports- mouth, and needed the help of the life-boat. The weather...
Amble, Northumberland.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 19th of February, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Margaret Anna was still at sea in bad weather.
At 3.15 the life-boat J. W. Archer was...
Sunderland, Durham. — About two o'clock early on the morning of the 5th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Bruse, of Oslo, had broken down at the entrance to the harbour and was drifting dan- gerously near the South...
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 3rd of May, 1954, the auxiliary ketch Three Brothers, of Rye, broke from her moorings in the harbour. A whole gale was blowing from the north, and the sea was...