During the evening of 3rd November, in a terrific S.W. gale, the s.s. Glaus Horn, of Lubeck, wag driven ashore on the Gaa Bank at the mouth of the river Tay. A telephone message was sent to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Maria, stating that a...
Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.20 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pavlos of Beirut, which was on passage from Bremen to Greece, that she had...
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...
Yealm River and Plymouth, South j Devon.—The s.s. Veghtstroom, of Amster- dam, whilst bound from Fowey to Amsterdam with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Mewstone at theentrance to Plymouth Harbour on the 21st November. Information of...
GILES QUAY, DUNDALK.—The s.s. Duddon, of Whitehaven, bound from Newport, Mon., for Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, went ashore on the bar during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea, on the 16th of October. A steam-tug went to her...
DOWN.—A tele- phone message was received from Cloughey at 7.30 A.M. on the 28th July, stating that the Life-boat was required to stand by a stranded steamer, as the Cloughey Life-boat was not available.
The crew were...
WHITHORN, N.B.—The s.s. Kittiwake, of Carlisle, while leaving Whithorn Harbour, at about 11.15 P.M. on the 6th March, during a fresh S. breeze, got her steering gear foul, and stranded on the Screens Rocks. The coxswain of the Life-boat,...
At 8 A.M. on the 17th December, 1932, the s.s. Co- operator, of Fenit, while bound, with a crew of three, from Tralee Canal to Fenit, encountered a strong S.W. gale with a rough sea. She could not make headway, and dropped anchor, but it did...
NORWEGIAN VESSEL Humber, Yorkshire. At 7.38 p.m. on 13th July, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a Norwegian vessel anchored in Bull Anchorage had an injured man aboard whose condition required the services of a...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.33 on the morning of the 4th of November, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the S.S.
Parkwood, of Middlesbrough, with a crew of fifteen, had run ashore on the...