Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.16 on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a distress signal had been seen two miles south of Portland Bill. At 3.40 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland put out in a...
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 5.5 on the evening of the 8th of December, 1957, the Trevose Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch vessel Tubo was in difficulties twenty miles west of Lundy and that her cargo of grain was shifting...
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.30 on the morning of the 5th of February, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the S.S. Orkney Trader, of Kirk- wall, was in danger of driving ashore two and a half miles north of Buckie.
Barrow, Lancashire. At 9.5 on the morning of the 12th of May, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing vessel was in difficulty and aground half a mile off Sandy Gap, Walney Island. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at...
PILOT WANTED Ezmouth, Devon.—About 8.15 on the night of the 9th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares and signalling be- tween two and three miles off Sidmouth, and the motor life-boat Catherine Harriet...
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.10 in the morning of the 4th of September, 1948, information was received that a trawler, which had gone ashore at Saddle Point, was blowing her syren and burning flares, and the motor life- boat White Star was...
New Brighton, Cheshire. — During the early afternoon of the 15th of September, 1948, the Hoy lake coastguard reported that a barge had broken away from her tug in Liverpool Bay and had anchored, but was dragging towards the Burbo Bank, and...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.5 in the evening of the 17th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a ship had reported two small vessels in distress and signalling for help, one and a half miles north-east of Blacktail Spit Buoy, and...
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.30 on the night of the 6th of December, 1948, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Saxton, of Middlesbrough, was aground outside the harbour entrance with her engines broken down, and the motor...
Ranugate, Kent.—At 11.5 on the night of the 12th of September, 1949, a vessel was reported aground on Quern Head,off the Brake Sands; and at 11.17 the life-boat Mary Scott, 011 temporary duty at the station, left her moorings.There was a...