ARTHUR FREDERICK EVANS died on the 24th May, 1961, at the age of 89.
He was appointed Surveyor of Machinery of the Institution in 1914, a position which he held until his retire- ment in 1926. He was largely responsible for...
Category: Obituaries
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Brittan Willis was informed at 9 P.M. on the 1st September that a ketch was drifting on to the rocks on the north side of Lough Foyle, at a place called the Warren. He at once assembled the crew, and the...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 1st of August, 1954, twelve members of an angling club went in a motor boat to the Calf of Man, but during the afternoon the weather grew worse and prevented them from returning. At three...
At midnight on the 30th December the same life-boat put off again, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, in reply to signals of distress from the light-vessel on the Goodwin Sands.
While proceeding to the southward at the back of...
On the 17th January, the schooner Bellona, of Eed Bay, was driven ashore in a heavy gale off the bar of Dtmdrum, and almost immediately be- came a total wreck. Owing to the thickness of the weather and darkness of the morning, she was not...
At about 5.30 P.M. on 3rd March, information was received by telephone from the Coast- guard that a vessel about two miles to the westward and close in shore was apparently in difficulties. A moderate E. breeze was blowing with a moderate...
The s.s. Goole, of Goole, whilst bound on the 24th June from that port to London with a cargo of coal, stranded on the middle Hasboro sands during a dense fog, and two barges which she was towing broke adrift.
' The...
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th January a strong gale was experienced from N.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, very cold weather and snowstorms, and the crew of the Life-boat Star of Hope were on duty all night, as there were three vessels at...
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.—At 2 A.M. on the 27th, the Coastguard reported that a vessel, about six miles to the S.E. of the harbour, was firing signals of distress.
The crew of the Life-boat Michael Henry were assembled and an...
Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.10 on the morn- ing of the 6th May, 1961, the meteoro- logical office at Prestwick airport in- formed the honorary secretary that the weather ship Weather Adviser, on passage to the Clyde, had reported a man overboard...