Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small yacht was aground on the Barrow Sands. A helicopter took off and at 8.55 the life-boat Greater London II...
The brig L'Etoile, of St. Malo, from Oette, bound to Riga, laden with salt, got on the rocks a little to the east- ward of Sudmore, at 9'30 P.M., on the 3rd of May. The night was intensely dark, a fresh gale blowing from the S.W.,...
About noon of the 14th of November, during a terrible gale from the N.E., signals of distress were hoisted on board vessels at anchor in Fishguard Koads. The No. 1 Life-boat, Sir Edward Perratt, was at once launched; but before she could...
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 1st November, 1961, a relative of the crew of three of the motor fishing vessel Linda informed the honorary secretary that the vessel was overdue and asked for the life-boat...
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a Life-boat establishment at Staithes, near Whitby, where it was con- sidered that a Life-boat would be most useful, especially in helping the fishing boats, which...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.40 in the morning, on the 1st of December, 1950, the pier signal station sent a message that the motor tanker Guides- man, of London, was ashore off Scar's Elbow Buoy, near Canvey Island. At 5.25 the...
On the evening of the 20th August the coastguard telephoned that Gorton light-vessel was making signals indi- cating a ship in distress N.E. of the light-vessel. A light S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 9.20 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Lymington had reported a small boat in distress off the West Lepe buoy. At 9.35 the life-boat S.G.E....
TILE Committee of Management heard with very great regret of the sudden death on April 6th of their colleague Captain Ernest William Swan, C.R.E., V.D., D.L., R.N.V.R. Captain Swan Ix-came a member of the Committee in 1939, and brought to...
Category: Obituaries
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on the 19th January, the Life-boat Richard and Anne Warner was summoned to the assistance of the Vittorioso G, a brig belong- ing to Venice, which was wrecked in Ban- now Bay, on the Selskar rocks, during a...