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The Admiralty Tanker Wave Victor (1)
Ilfracombe, and Appledore, Devon; and Minehead, Somerset.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1954, the Admiralty tanker Wave Victor, which had fifty-five people on board, wirelessed that fire had broken out in her engine-room...
Signals of Distress
Required to Tie used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the 18th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873.
"In Die Day-time,—The following si, together or separately, shall be...
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The Sailing Boat Sarah
Wicklow.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1954, a man at Arklow rang up to say that the 24-feet sailing boat Sarah, of Wicklow, had left Arklow for Wicklow earlier in the day with four men on board. At 7.30 the Wicklow Head...
The Life-Boat Institution and the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board
FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...
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The Dredging Vessel Hopper No. 4
DECEMBER 18TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At 2.10 in the afternoon a telephone message was received from the Bailey Lighthouse, Howth, that Hopper No.
4, a dredging vessel belonging to the Dublin Port and Docks Board, had...
The Austrian Schooner Voador Du Vouga
On the 20th February the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition.
The Austrian schooner Voador du Fo«^a,with a cargo of Indian corn and figs, was driven ashore in Tramore Bay, in a S.W. gale, when...
Kathleen, of Hartlepool
About 7 o'clock on the evening of the 9th October, two guns were fired and rockets thrown up from the Cockle Float- ing light. The night was dark and rainy, with a strong wind and a heavy sea on the beach. The Caister life-boat was...