COLONEL JOSEPH BENSKIN, D.S.O., O.B.E., died on the 14th of July, 1953.
He had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management since 1929 and a Vice-President since 1948. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee in...
Category: Obituaries
APRIL 1ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A British bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but another boat picked up two survivors and a dead body. - Rewards, £8 16s. 6d.
(See Peterhead, “...
Steadfast indeed I hope my comments will not throw your administration into a whirl, but being an ex-member of the Boys' Brigade and a Governor of the RNLI for many years, I was surprised to see in the latest Lifeboat that the new...
Category: Correspondence
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.^At 10.30 on the night of the 22nd of December, 1955, a telephone message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service in Dub- lin that the motor vessel Gansey, of Castletown, had wirelessed that she had damaged her...
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On the i afternoon of the 5th January, information reached this place that a large ship, with her foremast gone, was in distress 'in Car- digan Bay, about eight miles to the south- ward of Pencilan. The wind was blowing very strong at...
During the morn- ing of the 13th June, the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched in answer to guns from the East Goodwin Light-vessel, and on reaching her found the crew of the schooner Cicerone, five in number, taking refuge...