Two years ago the Lerwick Branch wrote to over 130 firms in the Shet- iands asking if their staffs and work- people would give a penny a week to the Life-boat Service. All but one firm agreed. The contributions for the first year amounted...
Category: Donations
THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...
Category: Articles
THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...
Category: Articles
BUCKIE. — The schooner Claudine, of Antwerp, bound to Ipswich, was observed about noon on the 20th January, when blowing very hard from S.W., with snow squalls, to be drifting to the eastward in a helpless and disabled state. The Life-boat...
DROGHEDA.—On the 11th May, at about 11.30 A.M., a vessel was reported to be in distress outside the Bar. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, John Rutter Qhorley, were assembled, and the boat was launched as quickly as possible and proceeded out...
On the 25th November a heavy gale of wind from E.S.E. sprang up in the morning, causing a very heavy sea. At about 10 o'clock eight Scotch fishingvessels, on their way from Yarmouth fishing-grounds to Scotland, were seen running for...
AHBROATH.—Shortly before 1 P.M. on the 23rd January the People's Journal No. 2 Life-boat was launched, during a strong gale of wind from the S.S.E., accompanied by hail and rain, with a high sea on the bar, to the assistance of a number...
THE United States Government have recently issued their report of their Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1888. From it we learn that at the close of the fiscal year in question there were 222 life-saving stations, 170...
Category: Articles
Shortly before 8 A.M., on the 2nd April, it was reported that the fishing fleet were at sea and some of them were coming for the har- bour. There was a strong W.N.W.
breeze, and the sea was growing on the Bar as the tide...
ALBERT COTTIER, assistant motor mechanic of the Ramsey (Isle of Man) life-boat station, lost his life, together with five other men when a rowing boat capsized on the 8th of March, 1956. An unsuccessful search by the Ramsey life-boat was...
Category: Obituaries