The Wreck of the Young England
Sunday 14th November 1852 Daylight fresh gales with rain ESE. Sunset, fresh gales with rain ESE. Night fresh breezes and hazy, clear and cloudy with showers at times ESE. The state of the weather prevented me attending at church. I wrote to Mr Walsh respecting the “Grace and Ann”, at 9 we observed rockets and lights near Balbriggan , I and Clark walked there at 12 o’clock. Met Mr Barett who told us a ship was on shore on his north guard.

Life in a Lighthouse. 1892.
People who profess to be tired of the world and its turmoil may rave over the delights of solitude in a Lighthouse, where the soul may commune with nature....

American Smuggler Caught. 1839
Re the case of Mr.Dillon, late of the Royal Navy, and formerly commanding the Preventive Coast Guard station at Millcove, in the county of cork....

CG Opinions
Opinions on the Coastguards...

Narrow escape
Narrow Escape from Drowning at Soldiers Point. 1890...

British Justice
If a Navy person commits a crime he is discharged... If a smuggler commits a crime he is enlisted into the British Navy...

Murder of a Coastguard
I write to give you some particulars of the murder of Mr. Reynolds, Chief Officer of the Coastguard in the Island of Achill...

Meritorious Conduct
The Brig MARY DICK of Kirkaldy. James Norman being fifteen days out of Cardiff, bound to Constantinople...

Smugglers Captured
On the evening of Saturday last, a small schooner was seen in the offing, by the Water Guards near Baldoyle...

The Loss of the "Skiddy"
Reporting to owners the loss of the ship the J.R. Skiddy...

Foundering of the Brig "Rival"
In reference to the loss of the above vessel the Master has published the following statement...