Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.19 p.m. on 9th December, 1965, the coxswain was told that a small yacht was in difficulties at the harbour entrance. The motor fishing vessel Golden Hope went to the yacht, but was unable to render any assistance as...
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
South West Division German tug, Dutch coaster ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday January 3, 1984, the West German tug Fairplay X fouled her propeller in St Ives Bay while trying to pass a towline to the Netherlands coaster Orca; the coaster, her...
Category: Services
Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk.
ON 26th November, 1924, two acts of great individual gallantry were per- formed in rescuing life from vessels stranded near the shore. One was on the rocky coast of...
Category: Services
GREENCASTLE.—On the 26th December, the three-masted schooner Beautiful Star was observed close upon the Ton Bank, showing signals of distress. The Lifeboat Mary Annette went off to her assistance and put 4 of her crew on board the vessel,...
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—While returning from the fishing grounds to Yarmouth on the 1st December, 1937, the steam drifter Pilot Star, of Kirkcaldy, carrying a crew of ten, stranded on the Holm Sands. A...
Margate, Kent.—At 4.9 on the after- noon of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht alongside the Tongue lightvessel needed help. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 4.23. There...
MORE LOBSTER FISHERS IN DISTRESS Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—At about 1.15 in the afternoon of the 21st of August, 1947, the civic guard reported that the salmon yawl Morning Star, of Helvick, which had been lobster fishing, was in...
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.30 early on the morning of the 18th of Decem- ber, 1954, the Formby coastguard reported that a fishing boat had wire- lessed that she was standing by the fishing boat Morning Star, of Rothesay, which had run...
Newhaven, Sussex - At 6.25 p.m. on I3th August, 1966, a small boat was reported in difficulties just outside the breakwater. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 6.50 in a rough sea and south westerly gale. It was three hours after...