THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180...
Category: Inaugurations
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
Category: Articles
Moelfre, Anglesey.—On the 15th July four visitors, two men and two women, put out in a small boat from Benllech.
A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The boat soon got out of control and was carried away...
APRIL 3RD - 4TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.34 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that a vessel was believed to be ashore on Bell Rock, and at midnight the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong N.E. wind...
AEROPLANE CRASHED Lerwick, Shetlands—At 12.9 in the morning of January 3rd, 1947, an aero- plane could be heard flying round the town, and it dropped red flares. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, causing a rough sea, and as it appeared...
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The Robert and Susan Life-boat was launched on the 30th of June to the assistance of the coble Jane Isabella, which had gone to the fishing ground with four other boats and had been overtaken by a gale from the E...
THE LIFEBOAT Mersey Class lifeboat ON 1183 Lil Cunningham Built: 1W2 Cost: C650.000 Funding: A generous gift Irom Miit Salty Cunningham of Derby in memory of her sister D class lifeboat D-485 Stafford with Rugtlty Built: 1995 Cost. ni.OOO...
Category: Services
MARCH 7TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 9.45 P.M.
a message was received from the Gorleston coastguard that the South Knoll Light-vessel had reported a ship on fire two miles N.E.
of the...
COBLE WAS ESCORTED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 9.50 a.m. on 23rd October, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the weather was becoming worse and that two cobles were still at sea. At 10.10 the life-boat Richard Ashley was...
THK Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving by a member of a life-boat crew in 1962 has been won by Bowman John Kerr, of Blyth, for his part in the rescue of the crew of two of the motor vessel Paullgate on the 18th November. A...
Category: Awards