Ramsgate, Kent.—At 10.26 on the night of the 17th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel had signalled by lamp that a steamer had gone aground on the north-western side of the Goodwin Sands. At 10.39 the life-boat...
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 10th of July, 1954, a shipping agency at Preston telephoned to ask if the life-boat would start out to the S.S. Windward Islands, of Gothenburg, which was due off the Nelson Buoy...
FEBRUARY 6TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
Just after 11 P.M. information wasreceived from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore west of Fast Castle Point. The motor life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched...
Southend - on - Sea, Essex. — On the afternoon of the 21st January a report was received from the watchman at the pierhead that a small steamer was ashore on the Nore Sands. A very squally wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 10.20 on the morning of the 14th of September, 1952, the coastguard reported that the S.S. Kylemore, of Limerick, which was one and a half miles off Holyhead, had a sick man on board and had asked for a doctor. At...
The s.s. North- umbria, of London, broke down when in the vicinity of Withernsea on the 2nd November, and in response to a message reporting that a vessel was in distress the Hornsea Life-boat Helen and Mar- garet was launched. When the Life...
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 27th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Ardetta, of Liverpool, which was off Newhaven, had asked for a boat to land a man who had fallen down her hold. The...
A telephone message was received from the Coastguard at 1.53 P.M. on the 6th January that the s.s. Jersey City, of Bideford, had broken down and was in distress ten miles off the Bishop Rock.
Preparations to launch the...
ROKER.—The Life-boat William Hedley put off at 12.20 P.M. on the 21st January to the assistance of the s.s. Manhattan, of London, bound from Hull for SunderJand with oil, which had stranded between Eoker Pier and the North Pier in a strong N...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th of June, 1952, a message was received from the agents of the S.S. Belfri, of Oslo, that she was making for Storno- way with a woman aboard who was seriously ill. The...