WEXFORD.—On the 25th April, at 11.30 A.M., the s.s. Montagu, of Liverpool, was observed ashore on the south side of the East Bar Channel. The Civil Service Life-boat was at once launched, and was taken in tow by the steam-tug Ruly, which had...
At about 5 A.M. on the 16th November, in reply to signals of distress, the same Life-boat proceeded to the Middle Scroby Sand, and found the s.s. Ringdove, of Liverpool, ashore there in the midst of the breakers. With great difficulty and...
Shortly after midnight on the 21st June, rockets were observed from a vessel about two miles to the S.W. of Selsey Bill, and the Life-boat Lucy Newbon was promptly launched.
She found the s.s. Kenora, of Toronto —a large...
DECEMBER 19TH. - WALMER, KENT.
The S.S. Terborsch, of Amsterdam, had run aground on the Goodwin Sands, but refloated on the rising tide without help. - Rewards, £31 17s. 6d..
Troon, Ayrshire.—Early on the morning of the 27th October it was learned that a vessel, four or five miles south of Ayr harbour, was making distress signals. A whole W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and snow showers. The motor...
JUNE 13TH. - ABERDEEN. A message was received from the Gregness coastguard that a vessel was on fire seven miles from Greyness, and at 1.30 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched. A little northerly wind was...
HARWICH and ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been fired by the Cork Lightvessel, the Harwich steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Boat in tow, went out at 4 A.M., on the 20th October, proceeded to the Light-ship, and was...
FEBRUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 A.M. it was reported that a steamer was ashore one and a half miles S.W.
of Maughold Head and was making distress signals. A S.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 6.45 on the night of the 8th of February, 1950, the S.S. Joseph Mitchell, of London, loaded with coal for Cork, was seen to be very close to the shore about one and a half miles south-west-by-west of Ballycotton. At...
WINTERTON AND PALLING. — On the night of the 31st of January last, the s.s. Beresford, of West Hartlepool, bound from Middlesbrough for Bombay, with a general cargo, stranded on Hasborough Sand during a thick fog, a S.W. wind, and a heavy...