Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of January, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Don, of Goole, which was at anchor half a mile west of the Middle Light Buoy, had reported that her second officer had...
PILOT WANTED Ezmouth, Devon.—About 8.15 on the night of the 9th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares and signalling be- tween two and three miles off Sidmouth, and the motor life-boat Catherine Harriet...
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 2nd of June, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported a small yacht in distress about two miles north-east of Sunk Head Tower. At...
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PORTHDINLLAEN.—At 4 P.M. on the 2nd August, during a southerly gale, a fishing smack belonging to Llanaelhaiarn had her sails carried away when ten miles from port, and was seen drifting to the N. before the storm. The Life-boat Cotton...
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. — On the morning of the 80th September, a vessel was seen with signals of distress about 5 miles 13. of Skegness. The crew of the Herbert Ingra,m> Life-boat were at once summoned, and the Life-boat having been...
Ramsgate, Kent.— At 5.37 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had launched a boat to pick up a boy in a dinghy which had drifted past the lightvessel, but that both boats were now...
On the after- noon of the 3rd March a man told the coxswain that a boat was drifting off Howth. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.
The motor life-boat Lady Kylsant put out at 3.10 P.M., and about three...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 5th October the coastguard reported that a sailing barge was in difficulties, with its sails blown away, and was drifting towards the Newcome Sands. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea...
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953,the Pendeen lighthouse-keeper rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that he had seen a yacht in distress off the Three Stone Oars Rocks, and at 5.30 the life-boat...