AUGUST 28TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At nine in the morning a messenger came by car to the lifeboat station and reported that six small sailing boats had been washed away from Kilbrittain during a storm, and it was thought that a...
FEBRUARY 17TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 1.40 A.M. a barge was reported by the coastguard to be in distress off Seaford and burning red flares. A very strong southerly wind was blowing, with heavy seas, fog and blizzards of snow. At 2.25 A.M....
Helvick Head, Co. Waterford. — At 5 o'clock in the evening on the 7th of January, 1950, information was re- ceived that the sixteen-feet sailing boat Berlin, with a German and his daughter on board, had left Kilmore Quay for...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 3rd of June, 1956the Polruan coastguard reported that a sailing boat moored off Portscatho seemed to be dragging her anchor. As the weather conditions were bad the life-boat Cunard,...
HELICOPTER RESCUE FROM SAILING BOAT Holyhead, Anglesey. At 6.55 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people were clinging to an overturned sailing boat three miles north-east of the...
BULL BAY, ANGLESEY.—A small sailing boat, north of the Middle Mouse and drifting to sea, was seen by the coastguard, on the afternoon of the 26th August signalling for assistance. A message was at once sent to the Life-boat Station, and at 4...
On the evening of the 24th September a message was re- ceived from the lighthouse-keeper on Ross Island that a sailing dinghy with two men had gone ashore on Richard- son's Rock, which is between Ross Island and the mainland. The men had...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.32 on the night of the 31st of August, 1954. a man rang up to say that his sailing boat Victory had put out that morning with a crew of two and nine visitors, but had not returned. At 10.50 the life-boat Hearts of...
Selsey, Sussex. — At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952.
the West Wittering police reported that a fourteen-feet sailing dinghy, which had a crew of two from H.M.S.
Collingwood, had capsized...
At 6.15 p.m. on 4th June, 1970, a member of the crew of the Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, IRB saw a sailing dinghy with one man on board in difficulties three quarters of a mile off shore. The IRB was launched at 6.20.
There...