Cromarty.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 20th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore off Arder- sier and needed help. At 5.10 the life-boat James Macfee put out. The sea was rough, a gale...
BY the death on the 6th of February, of His Majesty King George VI, the Life-boat Service lost not only a beloved Sovereign but its own Patron.
He had carried on the tradition of over a century and a quarter that the...
Category: Obituaries
Nov. 1ST. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS. At 10.40 P.M. a message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard that a vessel was ashore at North Ronaldshay, sixty miles away. A fresh south-easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 11.15 P.M. the...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 1st November, 1961, a relative of the crew of three of the motor fishing vessel Linda informed the honorary secretary that the vessel was overdue and asked for the life-boat...
Front Row, left to right: Sir Godfrey Baring,, Bt. (Chairman of the Committee of Management), The Lord Mayor of Liverpool (Miss Margaret Bsvan), Mr. Charles Livingstone (Chairman, Liverpool Committee).
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Category: Photographs
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
KESSINGIASTB. — At 4 P.M., on the 7th February, signals of distress were observed.
from the fishing smack Pioneer, of Lowestoft, which had stranded in J?akefieM Gat.
The So. 1 Life-boat, the Botton, was...
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 31st August the motor yacht Sea Hawk, of Nottingham, got into difficulties after her engine had broken down, and ran aground in a very dangerous position three miles N.E. of Spurn. She was...
By M. GRANJON de LEPINEY, Administrates Delegue.
[The footnotes are by the Editor of " The Life-Boat"] THE Central Society for Saving the Ship- wrecked * was founded in 1865 in the following circumstances. The...
Category: Articles
FOLLOWING A MESSAGE received at 1553 on Saturday March 29, that a.sailing longboat from Wellesley Nautical School Community Home with six crew and an instructor on board had capsized one mile south of the fairway buoy, Blyth D class...