THE following letter, written by Mrs.
Eileen I. McCormick of 5 Craighillgrove, Clarkston, Glasgow, was published by the Scottish Sunday Express on the 31st of May, 1959, and is reproduced by kind permission of the editor:...
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Margate, Kent. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1959, the watchman of the local pilot cutter informed the honorary secretary that a radio message had been received from the s.s. Seaford of London, asking for a doctor, as the...
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—A small yacht, the Luffra, of Douglas, was reported to be in distress and quite unmanageable off Santon Head while a whole gale was blowing from N.E. with a very heavy sea, on the 29th May. The Life-boat...
Aberdeen.—Early on the morning of the 13th August the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at or near Portlethen. A gentle southerlybreeze was blowing, with a moderate sea and thick fog. The reserve motor life-boat J. & W., which...
Vivien Nicholson ceremoniously knocks over the pile of pennies collected for the lifeboat service in 1977 at the Jolly Sailor Inn, Selby. The pennies added up to £.189, and it is the third year running that such a pile has been... - View image in PDF
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The s.s. En- terprise, of Cardiff, loaded with coal, stranded on " Cowbar Steel," off Staithes, about 11 P.M. on the 16th June. The cobles belonging to the place went off to her assistance, but finding the conditions of weather...
HRH The Duke of Kent stands on the foredeck of Edward Duke of Windsor pined by Brian Miles, David Acland and the crew. Photo: Anthony Oliver. - View image in PDF
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SOUTHEND, CANTYRE, N.B. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment, under the management of the Campbeltown Local Committee, at the south end of Cantyre, near Dunaverty Castle, where JANUARY 1, 1870.] THE...
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KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—This Life-boat station was transferred to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION by the Dublin Billast Board in January, 1862.
In April of the same year the Institution replaced the Life-boat then at...
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Fowey, Cornwall. At 12.26 on the afternoon of the llth July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing boat was on the rocks to the west of Fowey harbour.
There was a gentle southerly breeze and...