Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3()th of September, 1956, the coastguard reported that the yacht Ann, of Rhyl, was in difficulties with engine trouble one mile and a half north of Rhyl pier. At 12.50 the life-boat...
DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 10.55 in the morning a message was received from the naval control for food to be taken to the drifter Ocean Lover, which had been lying a mile east of the boom for four days owing to thick fog...
THREE life-boat stations, those at Camp- beltown, Llandudno and Selsey, all celebrated this year the hundredth anni- versary of their foundation.
The Campbeltown station was founded in the first instance largely be- cause...
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IN August, 1825, seventeen months after the founding of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, a life-saving j society was formed at Boulogne, with the title " La Societe Humaine et des Naufrages de Boulogne." It was the first...
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Thursday, 8th February, 1934.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
Donation from the executors of the late Mr...
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Washed off rocks VALENTIA COAST RADIO STATION made a general broadcast at 1119 on Thursday August 26, 1982, requesting assistance for an angler who had been washed off rocks at 1000 close by Culoo Head, westward along the north coast of...
MONTROSE.—The morning of the 25th February was comparatively fine, with a moderate breeze blowing from S.S.W., and the fishing-boats went to sea. At about 10 o'clock the wind veered to S.S.E. and commenced to blow very strongly, and a...
A LIFE-BOAT AS HEARSE Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 12.15 in the afternoon of January 12th, 1947, the Civic Guard asked that the life-boat should put out to Great Blasket Island and bring back the body of a man.
A strong...
THE Institution has had made for it a new sound film which tells the story of the building of a motor life-boat. It starts on the other side of the world, with the hauling by elephants of teak logs in the Burmese forests, and the felling of...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. — In the evening of the 7th of August, 1948, a Dutch yacht, the Duenna, an auxiliary ketch, with twin screws, of 140 tons, was anchored outside the harbour.
She had six on board, including...