BANFF.—At 3.15 P.M. on the 17th February the Life-boat Help for the Helpless was launched, a telephone message having been received from Macduff intimating that three fishing boats about a mile outside the harbour were in urgent need of...
The Earl of Jersey, D.L, (]J ., Oxon.)BY the death of the Earl of Jersey the Institution has lost a very warm friend and supporter, who for a number of years took a great and a personal interest in the work of the Oxford Branch. He was High...
Category: Obituaries
AGAIN this year, as two years ago, the organizers of the Marine and Small Craft Exhibition, which is held at the Agri- cultural Hall, Islington, very kindly gave the Institution a free site at the Exhi- bition. Here the Institution showed a ...
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The Staithes Pull- ing and Sailing Life-boat John Anthony was launched at 10.45 A.M. on the 5th October, as two of a number of fishing cobles which had put to sea to haul their crab pots had not returned and the sea had become rough, with a...
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 10th August the schooner Maggie, of Ardrossan, bound from Connah's Quay for Swansea with a cargo of bricks, stranded on the Platters Bocks, near the Skerries, during squally weather. The crew, five in number, who...
On the 27th of November, 1954, the Liberian tanker World Concord broke in two in the Irish sea. The St.
David's, Pembrokeshire, life-boat rescued thirty-five men from her fore- part, and the Rosslare Harbour,...
Raising the roof! ... and the walls, and everything else come to that! This is one way of dealing with a boathouse which is surplus to requirements - in this case at Number.
The terms of the RNLI's lease dictated that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Numerous vessels were at anchor under Speeton Cliffs on the 5th Feb., when a gale of wind sprang up from the S.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, and one of them, the schooner Starling, of Yarmouth, was seen approach- ing Filey with...
THE Board of Trade is to be congratulated on the success of its efforts to lay before the public the " Abstracts of the Shipping Casualties which have occurred on or near the Coasts of the United Kingdom " up to the latest possible...
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To THOMAS WATSON, on his retirement, after serving for 2J years as second coxswain, 19 years as bowman and 13 years as a member of the crew of the Cromarty life-boat, a life-boatman's certificate of service and an...
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