On the 5th Jan- uary the sloop Shamrock, of Liverpool, was seen at anchor in a distressed state in Wicklow Bay. There was a heavy gale blowing at the time, and she had lost some of her spars. The life-boat Robert Theophilus Garden was...
ARBROATH.—Notice was received at about 7 A.M. on the 23rd of January, during a fresh E. wind and a very heavy I sea, that the fishing boat 106, of Arbroath, was in danger outside the harbour bar.
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Walmer, Kent. At 3.15 on the after- noon of the 25th of April, 1959, the coxswain was informed that a catamaran with three people on board had capsized. He saw the casualty about four hundred yards off the life-boat house, and at 3.30 the...
LAST year the Institution lent photographs of portraits of Sir William ! I Hillary and Henry Greathead, and of a j i bust of William Wouldhave, to illustrate ; an article called " The Red Cross of the I Sea : the Romance of the...
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RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING FOE 1883.
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., IN the CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :—1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the...
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Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corfield, of London, needed a doctor to attend a sick man.
As no other boat...
MCH. 15TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
During the morning several fishing vessels were returning to harbour. A heavy sea was running in the bay, and the motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was launched at 9.45 A.M. in...
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides - At 5.30 a.m. on 2ist February, 1967, the motor fishing vessel Pilot Me II of Fraserburgh was reported to be drifting ashore in the vicinity of Tiumpan Head lighthouse about 14 miles north east of Stornoway. The...
The valuable life-boat, the Bradford, on this Station, in conjunction with the steam-tug Aid, put out, on the 23rd December, during a strong N.E. gale, to the rescue of the crew of the ship Providence, of Waisa, which was totally wrecked on...
(Left) The future Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Arun lifeboat hull building at Halmatic, Havant. During a visit in April, (I. to r.) C. G. Dove, Chief Designer, Halmatic, showed the new boat to Major-General R. A. Pigot, president of the Isle of... - View image in PDF
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