RAMSGATE.—Captain BRAINE, the harbour- master of Ramsgate, in reporting the noble service rendered by the Ramsgate Life-boat on the 6th January, on the occasion of the wreck of the ship Indian Chief, on the Long Sands, states that the vessel...
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 8.55 on the evening of the 28th of March, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Preston pilot cutter that the Nor- wegian cargo vessel Christian was aground on...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 5.26 on the evening of the llth of April, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the light- keepers at the Breakwater lighthouse had signalled that they had recovered the body of a twelve-year-old girl from the sea at...
ALL who were connected with the Lifeboat Service twenty years ago will have heard with regret of the death, on the 4th -of April, of Captain Howard Fiennes Julius Rowley, C.B.E., R.N.
He was in his eightieth year, and it...
Category: Obituaries
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the night of the 16th February the 20,000-ton Union Castle liner Winchester Castle, bound from Port Natal for Southampton, ran aground two hundred yards south of Blacknor Fort. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
Signals haviog been fired by the Nore Light-vessel on the morning of the 12th February, the crew of the same Lifeboat were summoned and proceeded to the head of the pier, a distance of about a mile and a half, where the boat is kept moored....
They weren’t the most dramatic conditions in terms of waves but the current under the pier is dangerous. My training and experience on the RWC helped so much – it was about using enough power to reach the casualty but not so much that I put... - View image in PDF
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Chris Clements, the windsurfer national champion, won all three races in an open meeting at Alexandra Yacht Club, Southend, on September 13. Clifton Worry, who organised the event, is also a crew member of Southend lifeboat and with nearly... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Eva Sugden, 106 on July 20, must indeed be the RNLI's oldest supporter. She is believed to have been the founder member of Spenborough ladies' guild, formed in 1928, of which at one time she was honorary secretary and of which... - View image in PDF
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On the 2nd Sep- tember, at three p.m., a vessel was observed aground on the Arklow bank, 8 or "9 miles distant from Arklow. The life-boat of that place proceeded at once to her aid, when *he found a heavy sea breaking over and around...