Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.15 on the morning of the 4th of September, 2959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had gone ashore on the north side of Wick harbour in thick fog. At 2.55 the life- boat City of...
On the 15th June, a messenger on horseback arrived at An- strother from Fifeness, having been de- spatched for the life-boat by the coastguard there, in consequence of observing a brigan- tine with her foretopmast and topgallant- mast gone,...
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act, of life-saving in 1953 has been won by Coxswain HughNelson,ofDonagha- dee, County Down. The award has been made for the service to the Princess Victoria on the 31st of Jan- uary, 1953, when the...
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APRIL 22ND. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
At 7.32 A.M. the coxswain received a telephone message from the St. Ismael’s coastguard that the Royal Observer Corps at Carmarthen had reported throughthe Ferryside Police that a...
The New Motor Life-boat for Calais.
LIKE the Institution, La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages publishes in its second half-yearly Report for 1929 a preliminary survey of the activities and progress during that...
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OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The frigate Cheboque, of the Royal Canadian Navy, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles away, with the loss of one of her crew of forty-three, and severe damage to her stern...
DINGHIES IN TROUBLE At 11.50 a.m. on 7th June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three sailing dinghies had capsized seaward of the harbour and, with about 20 dinghies in the area, the safety boat escorting them would be...
MRS. FLORENCE MABEL HENRIETTA COLEJIAX, M.B.E., J.P., of Clacton, who died on the 25th of August, 1952, at the age of eighty, had been for thirty years a distinguished and most successful worker for the Life-boat...
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THE Committee of Management have lost a very active member by the sud- den death, on the 6th of July, at the age of 66, of Mr. Linton • Thorp, K.C., LL.B., J.P., Recorder of Saffron Walden and Maldon, and at one time a judge in Egypt and...
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ON the 15th of May, 1951, the Flam- borough life-boat went out to save a.
boy, fallen over a cliff.
For a full account of this service, and list of rewards, see page 205..