New Quay and Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.
—At 1.40 P.M. on the 31st May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Peggy, of New Quay, with two men on board, had put out at 2 A.M.
and was long...
LIFE-BOATS SMOTHERED IN OIL Stromnest, and Longbope, Orkneys.— At 7.34 in the morning of the 24th of August, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to the Stromness life-boat station that the Norwegian tanker Gundine, of Arendal, was...
CANOES CAPSIZED Dunbar, East Lothian. At 4.40 p.m.
on nth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that two canoes had capsized off the East Beach. There was a moderate westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was...
Filey, Yorkshire.—About half past three in the afternoon on the 14th of November, 1949, the coastguard tele- phoned that the life-boat coxswain at Flamborough had reported a fishingcoble, broken down but under sail, a mile north-east of the...
Swanage, and Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-— About nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of September, 1949, the Swanage coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that red flares had been seen five miles south-east of Shambles. At 9.34 he...
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At four o'clock on the afternoon of 14th April, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a man in the Tuskar Rock lighthouse had injured his eye and was in need of medical treatment.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO ISLAND Galway Bay. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 6th January, 1962, the local medical officer asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take him to Inishere Island to attend an urgent medical case. As there was no...
A few weeks later, on May 28, a pleasure boat was returning from a lighthouse trip when her crew, Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Ronald Wheeler spotted a man on the rocks signalling that somebody was injured.
Unable to...
Stranded children EDINBURGH CITY POLICE informed Queensferry ILB station at 1725 on Sunday February 4 that four children and their dog were stranded on Cramond Island. The children had tried to return to the mainland by the causeway but, cut...
BOLD DIVE Mr. Albert Court, the full-time mechanic of the Wells, Norfolk, life-boat, was peacefully ferrying visitors in his own boat across the harbour channel on 4th July, 1971, from the Cockle Strand. There was an cast north easterly wind...