THE Royal Highland and Agricultural Show day was held in Paisley from the 20th to the 23rd of June, and the Watson cabin life-boat from Portpatrick, the Jeanie Spiers, a gift to the Institution from Miss E. S. Paterson of Paisley, was on...
Category: Donations
FOUR other naming ceremonies were held in England, in June and July, 1950, at Seaham, Clovelly, Hastings, and Teesmouth.
Seaham The new Seaham life-boat lias been built out of a legacy from the late Miss Elizabeth Elmy, of...
Category: Inaugurations
THURSO.—On the 11th November,during a strong gale from the S.E., at about 6 P.M., the Charley Lloyd Life-boat proceeded, at the request of the master, to the Vine, a vessel which was at anchor off Thurso, and brought ashore her qrew of 2...
Launches 41 Lives rescued 27
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down,...
Category: Services
LIBERIAN VESSEL Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 a.m. on 23rd February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground opposite Brook coastguard lookout. There was a near gale from the south-east with a rough sea,...
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1954, the police reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Meols. At 2.49 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched.
The sea was rough, a moderate westerly...
Fowey, Cornwall. —• About eleven o'clock in the morning of the 8th of June, 1952, a message was received that a motor boat had reached Fowey and the owner had reported that his friend was missing in the 18-feet motor boat E.M. He had...
Taken from a painting by Edward Walker of the Mexico and Lytham lifeboat. See 'Prints for Sale' on p. 301..
Category: Drawings
Would you serve these people? That was the question facing the landlords of 22 Isle of Wight pubs recently when regulars of the Commercial Inn decided to raise money for charity.
Photo Isle of Wight County Press... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, E.G., PRESIDENT or THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by His Grace THE PRE- SIDENT.
Seconded by Sir EDWARD BIRK- BECK, Bart., M.P., JVP.
That...
Category: Meetings