Portrush, Co. Antrim.—Shortly after noon on the 4th February a fisherman reported that one of the fishing fleet— the motor boat Alert, of Portstewart— had not returned to harbour, and that as the wind and sea were rising rapidly, anxiety was...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.8 P.M. on the 1st November, 1937, the coastguard reported that a motor sprat boat was in distress off Pakefield.
She was the Terry, of Lowestoft, homeward bound laden with sprats and carrying a crew...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.45 A.M. on the 8th April, 1938, the coastguard reported a small yacht in difficulties.
A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross was launched at 4.55 A.M....
Cr0mer, Norfolk.—The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.20 A.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, after information had been receired from the coast-guard that the fishing boat G. V. H., of Great Yarmouth, was in...
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At about 7 P.M.
on the 21st June, 1938, the coastguard reported that two fishing boats were in difficulties one mile east of Mullartown Point. They were the motor fishing boats Lizzie and William Cecil,...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 16th of August, 1956, the harbourmaster reported that dis- tress signals had been observed out at sea. The life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched at...
Ramsgate, Kent.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 25th of October, 1956, a message was received from the east pier that red flares had been seen two miles east of Ramsgate and that the local motor boat Skipjack.
with...
Dover, Kent.—At 1.58 early on the morning of the 25th of November, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was burning flares one mile east-north-east of the Varne lightvessel. At 2.20 the life- boat Greater London (Civil...
Swanage, Dorset.—At 12.52 on the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1957, the St. Albans Head coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht with her sails blown away was drifting six and a half miles south-by-east of Durlston Head.
The...
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 24th of June, 1957, a telephone message was received that the 21-feet speed boat Sea Gipsy had broken down six miles south-south- east of the Casquets. At 8.50 the life-boat Euphrosyne...