ST. ANDREWS, N.B.—The Ladies' Own Life-boat put off on the morning of the 16th November to the assistance of the schooner Roseneath, of Hull, which was near the breakers on the sandbanks off St. Andrews during a strong E. gale and very...
During moderate weather at 5.35 A.M., on the 14th January, flares were observed in the direction of the Newcombe Sands.
The crew of the Life-boat The Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, were promptly called out and the boat...
THE following shipowners have sent contributions to the Institution as a result of its placing the services of the Institution before them, after the crews of their vessels had been rescued by Life-boats. The first list of such contributions...
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Sir Godfrey Baring handing the Vellum to the Mayor. In the centre, Admiral de M. Hutchison.. - View image in PDF
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Left to right: The Viscount Bangor, Speaker of the Senate, Coxswain Andrew Young, Lady Dixon, D.B.E., the Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister.. - View image in PDF
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A COURT of enquiry, held in Germany, into the stranding of the motor tanker D. L. Harper at the Lizard, on 20th June, in a heavy fog, issued its judg- ment in December. In the course of it the Court said : " The readiness of the...
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H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent presents the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to Major Paul L. Park. - View image in PDF
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Workington, Cumberland.—On the 1st of June, 1955, the motor vessel Kengis, of Stockholm, which had anchored off the entrance to the harbour, wirelessed for a doctor to attend a sick man.
At 2.15 in the afternoon the...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1956, H.M. S.M.L. A 322 was observed to be aground on a rock outside Mallaig harbour. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose put out at four o'clock with the second coxswain...
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 7.10 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a small boat was missing from the harbour.
There were marks in the sand indicat- ing that she had been dragged...