Former County Magistrate Pleads Guilty in South Carolina to Drug Charge

Former Spartanburg County Magistrate Truman Poole, Jr, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a quantity of a substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine and cocaine. Full Story Available...

Coaster Drifts Within 1.5 Nautical Miles of Lizard Point

At 01:30 a.m. Friday the coaster `Swanland’, with nine persons on board suffered engine failure 4 nautical miles south west of Lizard Point in Cornwall. The master reported to Falmouth Coastguard problems with the fuel injectors and that he had no engine...

Cell Phone Call Saves Couple Adrift in Harsh Weather Conditions

At 02.26 this morning Yarmouth Coastguard received an emergency call on a cell phone from a 30 ft motor cruiser the LADY3. The owner of the vessel said that she had suffered engine failure at 10 00 pm Saturday evening just off the mouth of the River Humber...

Female Pilot Rescued After Light Aircraft Ditches Off Morecambe, England

At 12.15 in the afternoon Liverpool Coastguard were contacted by Air Traffic Control to inform them that a light aircraft had disappeared from their radars and was suspected of ditching off Morecambe Bay. The aircraft had been traveling from Guernsey...

180 Tons of Water Found Inside Detained Ship

Ship surveyors from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency have detained the Antigua & Barbuda flagged ‘Hanseatic Spirit’ at Portland. The 2,650 GT general cargo vessel was detained by the Agency after she called into Portland on her way from Poole...

U.K. Lifeboat Rescues Vessel After Bad Weather Breaks Tow

At 2145 last night Portland Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) received a call from a vessel that was towing another vessel just South of St. Albans reporting the tow had parted due to bad weather.