Clovelly, North Devon.—At 10.20 on the night of the llth of May, 1956, the Hartland Point coastguard rang up to sav that Mr. Gade, the resident agent on Lundy Island, was anxious that his son-in-law should be taken to the mainland as soon as...
Minehead, Somerset, and Life-boat 70-001 at Clovelly-At 12.50 a.m. on 24th September, 1967, it was learnt that a youth had taken out a yacht which was now drifting out to sea. The life-boat B.H.M.H. was launched at 1.12 in a light variable...
Port Isaac and Padstow, Cornwall - At 7.25 p.m. on 7th July, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port Isaac that a yacht had fired red flares about five miles west north west of the station. At 7.49 the IRB was launched...
Boys on a Perch ON HEARING from the Coastguard that two boys were cut off by the tide and were clinging to the perch marking the sewer outfall between Rhyl and Prestatyn (Flintshire), the Rhyl honorary secretary immediately assembled his...
MOTOR BOAT AGROUND AT HARBOUR MOUTH Courtmacsherry Harbour, Co. Cork.
At 9.30 on the morning of the 29th September, 1962, the coxswain saw the motor boat Puffin enter the harbour on her return from the fishing grounds to...
LAUNCH IN WORST BLIZZARD IN LIVING MEMORY Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. On the 5th February, 1963, the worst blizzard in living memory occurred and all road and air transport came to a halt. By the 8th there was an acute shortage of food, and...
CARGO MIGHT SHIFT Holyhead, Anglesey. At 11.15 p.m.
on 28th November, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Havlyn intended to weigh anchor and proceed to...
Newbiggin, Blyth, Amble and Tynemouth, Northumberland - On 5th August, 1966, life-boats from these stations carried out a search for the missing fishing coble Eventide whose crew of three - a father and two sons - were all at some time...
Jump from pier SOUTHEND STATION MECHANIC, Robert Chalk, was walking with two friends, Frederick Robinson (ILB crew) and Bernard Barton, near the lifeboathouse on Southend Pier at 0900 on Monday, November 25, 1974, when, looking into the sea...