St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At about 1.40 P.M. on the 15th January, 1938, coastguard reported that the s.s. Spero, of Newcastle, was drifting towards the shore five" miles north of St. David's Head. She was bound with a general...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.45 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1959, a message was received that a vessel, which had been in a collision, was sinking near Little Nore Sands. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was...
Workington, Cumberland.—On the 29th of July, 1953, the S.S. Nordeflinge, of Cardiff, reached Workington and anchored off the harbour. She re- ported that she was short of food, and as no other boat was available, the life-boat Manchester and...
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 3.29 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S. Germania, or Piraeus, wire- lessed that she had been in collision with the S.S. Maro, of Panama, four miles south of Beachy Head, but that no help was needed....
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Forniby coastguard that the S.S. Kyle Castle, of Liverpool, with a crew of twelve, had a heavy list about twenty miles...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 1.25 in the morning of the 15th of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported that she had picked up the crew of four- teen of the S.S. Rojo, of Oslo, which had...
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — At 5.14 on the evening of the 18th of De- cember, 1955, the coastguard tele- phoned that a wireless message had been received from the S.S. Pompey Power, of Portsmouth, that she had a very sick man on board who...
An excep- tionally severe gale was experienced on all coasts of the United Kingdom on the 22nd February, and about 12.40 P.M.
the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumber- land was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Bencroy...
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At 4.15 A.M. the motor life-boat At 4 A.M. the St. Anthony coastguard reported that a vessel was in distress about four miles S.S.E. of the life-boat station. A southeasterly gale was...
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the afternoon of the 5th May the s.s.
Birtley, of Newcastle, ran aground about six hundred yards north of Whitburn Steel in a fog. She was bound, light, from Rotterdam to the Tyne. A moderate S.E....