AUGUST 9TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At about 4 P.M. information was received that a steamer making for St. Tudwald’s Road was in need of help.
A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The...
On the 26th September the s.s. Ragna Gorthon, of Helsingborg, bound for the Thames with a cargo of wood pulp, ran on the Kentish Knock sands about three miles N.W. of the light-vessel. A fresh to strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
AUGUST 11TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK. At 11.56 A.M. the coastguard reported that enemy aircraft were attacking shipping some seven miles S.E. of Aldeburgh.
A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. A few minutes...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.43 on the evening of the 4th of March, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Mitcham, of London, which was at anchor half a mile south-east of Chap- man Light, had reported that her skipper was ill...
The s.s.
Ixion, of Glasgow, while bound from Campbeltown to Coleraine with a cargo of coke, came to anchor in the Skerry Roads on the 14th April. She had been damaged off Bengore, her pumps were choked, and her fires were...
During a thick fog on the 24th July, the s.s. Torbryan, of Glasgow, stranded on the rocks at Dodds Well, about 1 i miles north of Berwick Harbour, at 1.30 P.M. The life-saving apparatus went to her assistance and stood by in readiness, but...
POETPATEICK, WlGTOWNSHIEE and DONAGHADEB, Co. DOWN.—The Port- patrick Motor Life-boat J. and W., and the Donaghadee Motor Life-boat Wil- liam and Laura were both launched on the 13th January to the s.s. Camlough, of Belfast, the...
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.26P.M. a message was received from the Spurn Point Royal Naval Signal Station that S.S.
Pitwines had been attacked by enemy aeroplanes eighteen miles south of...
FEBRUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 12.30 A.M. a message was received from the Teesmouth coastguard that the S.S. Baron Ruthven, of Glasgow, was ashore on the North Gare, and that a tug was standing by. Half an hour...
The s.s. Trou- ville of Newhaven got broadside on to the bar outside Newhaven Harbour on the 6th March, during a S. by W. gale and very heavy sea, whilst bound from Caen with a cargo. The crew of the motor Life-boat were assembled promptly,...