At about 7 o'clock in the evening of the 26th February, the screw steamer Tuskar, \ of Glasgow, bound from Dundee to Liver- j pool, got on shore, in heavy weather, on the Abertay Sand Bank, at the mouth of , the Kiver Tay, A heavy sea...
GORLESTON.—Sockets and guns were fired by the Cockle and Middle Cross Sand and St. Nicholas Light-vessels, oa the morning of the 7th November. A strong gale was then blowing from S.W.
by S., the sea was very heavy and the...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.30 P.M. on the 29th May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the weather was getting bad and that several small fishing boats were at sea.
By 11 P.M. a...
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire.——At 7.30 in the night of the 23rd of October, 1949, a resident of Criccieth telephoned that he could see an unusual light a.
mile off Criccieth. The life-boat station made further enquiries...
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 26th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a boy had fallen over a cliff near St. David's Head. The life-boat Civil Service No.
6 was launched at 10.15 in...
TUG SAVED RHYL, Flintshire, life-boat was told on 28th June, 1971, that a vessel was in difficulties off Llandulas and in danger of being washed ashore.
The life-boat Har Lil was launched at 12.35 p.m.
in...
This year life-boat supporters will have a choice of four Christmas cards and three prices. There will be a 5d. card illustrated by a bowl of traditional Christmas flowers and berries; a plain white card bearing the Institution's crest...
Category: Advertisement
THREE LIFE-BOAT CALLS IN ONE AFTERNOON Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 1.45 on the afternoon of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was prepar- ing to launch on exercise in aid of the R.A.F.'s...
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The Institution...
Category: Articles
Lerwick, Shetland*. At 1.45 on the after- noon of 27th January, 1961, the Medical Officer of Health for Shetland told the honorary secretary that a woman had been blown over by the wind on Fair Isle and had been badly injured, and that it...