It is with deep regret that we record the death in February of Major-General R H Farrant. CB, chairman of the Institution from 1975 until his retirement in 1979.
Major-General Farrant joined the Committee of Management of...
Category: Obituaries
A VERY pleasant ceremony took place in the Guild Hall, Exeter, on the 24th July, when Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds, the Honorary Secretary of the Exeter Branch, and Mrs. Ferris Tozer, the Honorary ' Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary, re...
Category: Branches
KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—On the morning of the 18th September, signals of distress were fired by a vessel which proved to be the steamer Dolphin, of London, bound from London to Havre, with a general cargo and passengers, which had been in...
Category: Services
25th Octo- ber. A yacht had been reported to be in distress, but as a steamer was standing by and a tug was on its way, the life-boat was recalled shortly after leaving.—Rewards, £7 15*. 6d..
Kirkcudbright.—22nd January, 1939.
A steamer had been reported blowing her horn apparently for help, but no trace of any vessel in distress could be found.—Rewards, £23 11s. 6d..
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.—18th February, 1939. A rocket had been reported off the Isle of Skye, but later it was thought to have been a meteor, as no vessel in need of help could be found.—Rewards, £8 17s. 9d..
Arbroath, Angus. — 19th January, 1938. A rocket had been reported in the direction of Whiting Ness, but nothing could be found. The life-boat was launched four minutes after the assembly signal had been fired.— Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..<...
FEB. 18TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLE OF LEWIS. A rocket had been reported off the Isle of Skye, but later it was thought to have been a meteor, as no vessel in need of help could be found.-Rewards, £8 17s. 9d..
JULY 1ST. - MARGATE, KENT. Rockets had been reported between Warden Point and the Reculvers, but nothing could be found.
Mr. P. E. W. Gellatly, the honorary secretary, went out in the boat.-Rewards, £12 8s..
AUG. 12TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
The civic guard had reported that a man was in the sea and was urgently in need of help.
The life-boat put out with Mr. H. McCracken, a member of the committee, on board,...