THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...
Category: Inaugurations
AT 1.3 on the afternoon of 8th Decem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr.
P. G. Garon, learnt from the coast- guard that the Dutch motor vessel Temar of 198 tons was on fire. She...
Category: Services
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...
AT the Institution's annual general meeting, which was held on the 6th April, some remarkable facts about the year 1964 were given in the Chairman's report.
The year was in many respects an exceptional one. There...
Category: Articles
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1955, the Orlock coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run on the rocks a hun- dred yards south of Maidens. At 6.50 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put...
APRIL 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.10 at night on the 14th of April the Peterhead coastguard reported a vessel in difficulties at Craigwan, two miles north of Peterhead. Later he reported that no help was needed...
Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual Service by A VERY unusual Life-boat Service was carried out on 4th September last, when the No. 2 Life-boat at Whitby, a 34-feet Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, was called out to...
Lerwick, Shetland*, and Stromness, Orkneys.—llth January. The steam trawler Strathrye, of Aberdeen, with a crew of nine, sent out a wireless message that she was leaking and in danger of sinking at about 10 P.M. on the llth January. The...
NOVEMBER 24TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON, AND WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
A heavy south-westerly gale was blowing. The seas were very heavy. Visibility was poor. At 5.35 in the morning information came to the Torbay life-boat...