By the death on 16th January of the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A.,of Cadgwith, Cornwall, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost one of the oldest and most distinguished honorary secre- taries of life-boat stations. When, in 1898, he...
Category: Obituaries
CARMARTHEN BAY.—A private yacht, the Berwick, of Ferryside, with five persons on board, left Ferryside at 8 A.M.
on the 24th January, and proceeded down the river on a shooting excursion, intending to return with the tide....
The Coastguard received a message from the Gunfleet Lighthouse shortly after 10 A.M. on the 20th September, reporting that a steamer was ashore, with a tug in attendance.
A strong easterly breeze was blowing at the time...
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—A thick fog prevailed here on the 8th January; a strong breeze blew front the S.S.W., and there was a heavy swell. At about 3 P.M. the fog cleared a little, and a vessel, which proved to be the brig Primrose of and from...
The Motor Life- boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 6.40 A.M. on the 31st October, as information had been received from the Coastguard that a vessel was on the Tongue Sand. She found the s.s. Santa Rita, of Panama,...
ANXIOUS ABOUT SON Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 12.30 p.m. on 2Oth June, 1964, a woman caller, Mrs. Moore, telephoned the honorary secretary to say that her eleven year old son and his uncle, who had put to sea together in a 26-foot...
GERMAN GRATITUDE Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.30 p.m. on 4th December, 1964, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Haulbowline, told the honorary secretary that the German cargo vessel Waldemar Peter had on board a sick man who needed medical...
Galway Bay. At 10 p.m. on 3rd April, 1965, a nurse on Inishere Island informed the honorary secretary that a doctor was required for a maternity case.
As all the local boats were aground because it was low water it was...
GREEK STEAMER ON THE GOODWINS Walmer, Kent.—At midnight on the 7th of March, 1947, information was received from the Deal coastguard that an S O S had been sent out by a ship which -had grounded on the south part of the Goodwin Sands. A...
Aldeburgh, and Lowestoft, Suffolk.
At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the Lowestoft honorary secretary that the motor vessel Staniel of Cardiff, which was making for Lowestoft...