At daybreak on 10th February the s.s. E. Rose, of Great Yarmouth, bound, in ballast, from Ply- mouth to Boston, Lines., with a crew of six on board, was seen by the Coxswain to be in difficulties dangerously near a lee shore between...
On the afternoon of the 14th September the s.s. Ardgantock, of Greenock, bound from Ghent to Llan- elly with scrap-iron, ran into heavy seas going down-channel. Her cargo shifted and gave her a dangerous list to starboard. She put about and...
30th November.
The s.s. Orchis, carrying a crew of nine, put out from Par with a cargo of china clay for Dundee and Aberdeen. She sprang a leak and began to founder, and her crew took to the ship's...
ALDEBDRGH, SUFFOLK, and HARWICH, ESSEX.—The Aldeburgh No. 2 Life- boat Edward Dresden was launched at 10.30 P.M. on the 19th June in a strong westerly breeze and moderate sea to the assistance of the s.s. Ariadne, of London, ashore on the...
Workington, Cumberland.—At 2.45 on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1952, the master of the S.S. Baron Dunmore, of Ardrossan, reported that his ship had run aground in the channel at Workington and asked for the life- boat. The life-boat...
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Signals were heard on the morning of the 10th February proceeding evidently from a vessel on the northern part of the island. The weather was thick, snow was falling, the wind was blowing from N.E. a moderate...
The Bomber, Yorkshire.—At about 4.50 P.M on the 12th February, 1938, information was received through the Mablethorpe coastguard and the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was drifting on to the Haile Sands. She was...
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK ; CAISTEB, WIXTERTON-, PALLING, AND CBOMEE, NORFOLK.—In the early hours of 29th January, the s.s. Newbarn of Newcastle, which is a big steamer of more than 3,000 tons, ran aground on the southern end of the Hasboro'...
DOCTOR TAKEN TO BADLY INJURED SEAMAN Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th April, 1962, the police at Avonmouth dock informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seriously injured on board a ship...
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At 12.45 on the morning of the 9th of February, 1954, the Nell's Point coastguard reported that the S.S. Ivor Isabel, of London, and the S.S. Aase Maersk, of Nyborg, Denmark, had been in collision between...