On the same day on which the St. Ives motor life-boat was wrecked, the motor life-boat, Princess Mary, at Padstow, Cornwall, was damaged on service. She is the heaviest life-boat in the Institution's fleet.
At five...
Category: Services
AT nine in the evening of 4th Novem- ber, 1937, many people in the village of Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, heard the sound of a ship's siren, and thought that it must come from a ship dangerously close to the shore. A southerly gale was...
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LAUNCH TO TWO COBLES IN ROUGH SEA Whitby, Yorkshire. At 9.15 on the morning of the 13th April, 1962, the second coxswain called the attention of the honorary secretary to the fact that the sea was becoming rough at the harbour bar and that...
THE Committee of this Institution have found it necessary to reconsider the question regarding payments to their Life-boats' Crews, after they have rendered important assistance in saving property as well as lives, and accordingly the...
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NOVEMBER 28TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. About two in the afternoon, four boys put out duck-shooting in a rowing boat.
By seven o’clock they had not returned. The night was very dark, and a strong southwesterly breeze was...
Coxswain L. C. Pennycord of Selsey died in May 1960 at the age of 69. He served as second coxswain from 1932 to 1936 and was coxswain from 1936 to 1952. During his last year of service he was awarded the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Obituaries
WHEN the maritime character of this country is considered, and the liability of a large portion of its population to be at one time or another exposed to the " dangers of the seas," surprise maybe well excited at the facts—that but...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the night of the 16-17th August, sixteen men belonging to the trawlers Hatano and Nogi were rescued.—Rewards, Bronze medals, vellums and monetary awards amounting to £40 15s. (For a full account of this...