On 10th February, at 2.45 in the afternoon, when a whole gale from the S.E.
was blowing with a heavy sea, it was reported at Stromness that the S. S Cormorant, of Kirkwall, was in distress in Eynhallow Sound. The Motor...
Relief Brede: Champagne breaks over the bow of the 33ft Brede relief lifeboat named RNLB Merchant Navy to mark the generous support given to the lifeboat service over many years by merchant seamen. The ceremony took place in St Katharine... - View image in PDF
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JULY 15TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 0s. 6d..
AUGUST 24TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
Reports had been received that an aeroplane was down in the sea several miles west of Great Orme’s Head, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Moelfre, £8 ...
On life-boat day in Manchester and Salford one of the members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, a city councillor of Manchester, delivered her collecting boxes, and took her money to the bank, in a baby's pram..
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WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life-...
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NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Category: Services
AT 7.85 on the evening of the 10th of November, 1955, Mr. J. B. McClean, the son of the caretaker of Murlough House, noticed flares at sea at the entrance to the Dundrum river. He immediately went to the shore and saw a fishing vessel in...
Category: Services
14th October. During a whole N.W.-gale, with a very heavy sea, an S O S was received from the s.s. Hubert, which was being towed to Troon to be broken up. The life-boat put out at 11.5 P.M., and searched unsuccessfully until 2...