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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.2 P.M. on the 3rd December, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor ketch anchored in the harbour was flying a signal of distress. A whole N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of rain. The...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 8.45 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1955, a fisherman came in from sea in his fishing boat and brought ashore a woman from the yacht Bagatelle, of Ipswich. She stated that the yacht had run ashore on...

Dover, Kent.-—On the afternoon of the 31st of July, 1949, the life-boat crew stood by, as a large number of boats were afloat in the har- bour and a south-westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. They saw the yacht Foynes in danger...

PENMON.—The ketch Eva Lena, of Liverpool, laden with limestone, was seen to run aground on the Dutchman's bank during a moderate breeze from the E.N.E.

on the 28th December. She showed no signal of distress, but hearing...

CADGWITH AND LIZARD, CORNWALL.— Early on the morning of the 24th May the Cadgwith Life-boat Joseph Armstrong and the Lizard Life-boat Anna Maria were launched and proceeded, under sail and oars, to the assistance of the schooner Ellen Vair,...

THE brig Mountaineer was wrecked on Walmer Beach, on the 24th November, in a heavy gale from the eastward, when the crew, consisting of thirteen men and boys, with three Deal boatmen (the pilot, one Deal boatman, and two of the crew having...