OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.
Port Erin was asked...
Cold, wet and darkness form a classic environment for fear, and if this trio is mixed with the other fierce ingredients of a sea driven to fury by a winter storm hurling its strength against an unyielding tidal stream, it would take a truly...
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The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum.
The THANKS OF THE INSTITUTION INSCRIBED ON VELLUM has been awarded to :— The Reverend WALTER BARBICK HALL, on his retirement after 10 years as honorary secretary of the Hauxley and...
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20th December.
A fishing boat was overdue, but made port while the life-boat was searching in a thick fog.—Rewards, £36 6s. lOd.
This boat stationed at Queenscliff, Victoria, was built at Port Adelaide in 1926, after designs of the Institution, and her engines and fittings were supplied by the Institution.. - View image in PDF
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Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man —27th March, 1938. A keeper on the Chicken Rock Lighthouse had been taken ill, but was taken off by a fishing boat.— Rewards, £11 4s..
Clogher Head, Co. Louth, and Howth, Co. Dublin.—2nd January. A steamer was in difficulties but made port with- out help.—Rewards, Clogher Head, £12 16s., Howth, £11 7s. Sd..
APRIL 25TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. The French steamer Benerau Mitznigr, of Marseilles, had been in collision, but she was able to go on her way without help.- Rewards, £5 8s. 6d..