HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the bay at 8.30 P.M. on the llth December during a very heavy gale from the W.N.W. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off and found the schooner Dorothy and Mary, of Carnarvon, coal laden from...
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties and drift- ing off Porthdinllaen Point. The life- boat...
A SHORT time ago the Institution lent to the head mistress of an infants' school in a very poor part of London, one of its models in glass tanks, which are used for showing how a self-righting Life- boat empties herself of water and...
Category: Donations
Coxswain Robert Greig, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 23rd March at the age of eighty-three. At the age of ten he went to Edinburgh, and became assistant to his uncle, who was a book- seller. After two years of bookselling he went to...
Category: Obituaries
Surely the oldest ladies' guild member must be Miss Violet Oswald. One of thebest loved members of Dunoon and District guild, she reached the age of 103 on October 12, 1974. At the annual general meeting at Dunoon last year she was...
Category: Articles
Mr. Donald Laker, a member of the Weymouth life-boat crew who went overboard to swim to a yacht with a line, has been awarded the bronze medal for gallantry. The thanks of the Institution on vellum have been accorded collectively to the...
Category: Services
During a strong S.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the 21st March, the Life- boat Ada Lewis was launched to the assistance of twelve fishing cobles of New biggin, which had been overtaken while at sea by the gale. Two of the cobles were...
MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...
Category: Services
Hayling Island - double silver medal service, 25 October 1992. The photograph shows the difficult and hazardous conditions in which the rescue took place.
Coastguard helicopter attempting to pass a hi-line to the crew of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
We’re very sorry, but at the time of going to print, we were having technical difficulties with gathering the list of launches. This means we are unable to print the list in the usual way this time. We’re very sorry for any inconvenience.<...
Category: Articles