Bristol Channel Shipping Memories

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Bristol Channel Shipping Memories

Bristol Channel Shipping Memories

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November 12th. The Mumbles lifeboat was returning to from an unsuccessful call to a vessel ashore at Ogmore in near hurricane force winds. The coastguard signalled the lifeboat to proceed to another casualty at Overton and after battling against mountainous seas for another hour they were told the crew had been rescued from ashore by the local constable and coastguard. The vessel was the Dutch salvage tug “Wittezee”, Falmouth to Lamlash on naval duties. The Master was rescued from the surf and the remaining crew members were told to remain aboard until the ebb. The tug was a total loss and later sold for scrap. The tugs Master presented the tug’s wheel to the landlord of the Ship Inn who had fed and clothed them after the rescue. February -The French ship “Tunisie” went ashore on Lundy in a severe gale, snow storm and heavy seas. The Lighthouse keeper and seven others saved all 21 crew.

Long stretches of both sides of the coastline are designated as Heritage Coast. These include Exmoor, Bideford Bay, the Hartland Point peninsula, Lundy Island, Glamorgan, Gower Peninsula, Carmarthenshire, South Pembrokeshire and Caldey Island. On 24th August the English & Welsh Grounds Lightvessel sprung a leak in a severe gale and heavy seas. The Barry lifeboat went out to her and stood by until the Trinity House tender, Vestal, arrived from her Swansea base.Nov 7 Violent gale over Great Britain and Ireland, great destruction of life and property, especially at sea; 114 lives saved by lifeboats. November 17th. A southeasterly gale blew the previous evening and into the morning when the schooner “St. Christophe”, Blaye nr. Bordeaux for Swansea with pitwood, dragged her anchors. She was driven onto the Cherrystones, at Mumbles Head where she settled, and with a rough sea and an ebb tide she rapidly began to break up. With the assistance of the two lighthouse keepers and the garrison based on Mumbles Head, the crew of eight were rescued after hand for handing over a cable put aboard. The vessels dog was given a piece of wood and he jumped into the sea and swam ashore with it firmly between his teeth. February 11th. Bristol from Bridgewater, ran onto Nash Point. Three of her ten man crew were lost. The vessel and her cargo were saved.

On the same day, 23rd March, the Whitby brig “ Vesta” foundered in Swansea Bay. The crew of seven took to the rigging and were saved by the Mumbles lifeboat (Martha and Anne).

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On 27th January the Spanish brigantine “Juan de la Vega”, bound for Cardiff with pit props, got into difficulties off Penarth. With the aid of a tug, some hobblers and lifeboatmen from the Penarth lifeboat (Joseph Denman II) in repairing the rigging and pumping, she was taken into Cardiff.



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