Many enquiries have been received from readers of THE LIFE-BOAT asking for the address of the publishers of Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast, by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr, 2is., which was reviewed in the March...
Category: Articles
NOVEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE, AND MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. At 8.45 in the evening of November 16th the Kirkcudbright life-boat Morison Watson was launched to the help of Hopper No. 2, of Preston, which was reported...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
In The Crinan Canal The Converted " John Groome " On Her Way To Skye. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
By the death on 26th October, at the age of seventy-nine, of Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, J.P., president of the Colwyn Bay branch, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most distinguished honorary workers. For many years he worked...
Category: Obituaries
DUEING the gale on the East Coast on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th of November there were six launches at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston. The crew of the Cromer station were out on service continuously for forty-five hours, while...
Category: Services
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 30th of January, 1956, the weather worsened while three fishing cobles were at sea, and at 2.20 the life-boat E.C.J.R, was launched.
There was a very rough sea, a mod- erate...
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—The Steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 had just returned from an exercise on the 18th July when the s.s. Bramham, referred to above, was reported to have stranded on the Cross Sand. She immediately put to sea again, and...