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...
Aberdeen.—On the 9th of February, 1956, the agents for the S.S. Morma- coak, of New York, rang up to say that the vessel's cargo had broken adrift in bad weather and that her chief officer had been badly hurt. The vessel was making for...
MCH. 22ND. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 1.10 P.M. a steamer was reported ashore on the Plough Reef, one mile east of Holy Island. The weather was fine but cold, with a W.N.W. breeze and a choppy sea. The motor...
The s.s.
Aquila, of Liverpool, inward bound from Las Palmas'with cargo and passengers stranded near Rhosneigir, at 8.30 P.M., on the 6th April. A strong N.E.
wind was blowing and the weather was very...
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 5.24 p.m. on I3th August, 1965, news came that the S.S. Cardiganbrook had radioed for a doctor to meet her off Whitby as a man had been injured. The steamer's estimated arrival time at Whitby was 6.20 and at six...
MARCH 9TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 2.10 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities that a steamer was in need of help to the north of the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor life...
DECEMBER 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 1.50 in the morning the postmaster at Barra reported to the coastguard that he had heard the siren of a steamer to the southward, and at two in the morning the motor life-boat Lloyd’s put out...
GORLESTON.—Sockets and guns were fired by the Cockle and Middle Cross Sand and St. Nicholas Light-vessels, oa the morning of the 7th November. A strong gale was then blowing from S.W.
by S., the sea was very heavy and the...
JUNE 22ND. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 P.M. a message was received from the Staithes coastguard that a three-masted vessel had fired distress rockets three and a half miles to the N.N.W. A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing...
About 110011 on the 6th July the Coastguard fired the Life-boat assembly signal, and in response the crew quickly mustered, launched the boat, and at once pro- ceeded to the s.s. Lilian, of West Hartlepool, which was ashore in a very...