SEPTEMBER 19TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. A British aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled as the aeroplane was safe. - Rewards, £7 10s..
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. A landing craft had been reported adrift, but the lifeboat was recalled by the naval authorities.
- Rewards, £4 8s. 6d.
APRIL 18TH - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A vessel was reported to have been bombed and set on fire by enemy aeroplanes, but nothing could be found. - Reward £11 9s..
JULY 31ST. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
Black objects resembling rubber dinghies had been reported, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £11 12s..
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, G.C., B.E.M., died in Cromer and District Hospital on the night of the 13th of June, 1954, at the age of 78.
Henry Blogg's record as a life-boat- man is unique in the history of the Institution, for...
Category: Obituaries
ST. ANNE'S-ON-THE-SEA, LANCASHIRE.— The No. 1 Life-boat which has done duty at St. Anne's since 1886 has been re- placed by a new boat of the Liverpoo1 type, 36 feet long by 9 feet wide, fitted with two water-ballast tanks, and row-...
Category: Inaugurations
SWANSEA.—The coxswain of the Lifeboat received a telegram from the harbour master at Port Talbot shortly before 5 P.M. on the 1st December, stating that a vessel was ashore on Port Talbot bar.
The wind was blowing from the...
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...
Clovelly, Devon. •—• 14th August.
Anxiety was felt for two fishing boats from Port Isaac, but they got into safety without help.—Rewards, £12 8s..
It is not wonderful that the reputed power of oil to calm " troubled waters," and to rob the ocean, in its angry moments, of the greater part of its power for evil against men and ships, should have ex- cited a very wide-spread...
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