HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress were seen in the outer harbour at 10 P.M. on the 30th September last during stormy weather and a rough sea. The Thomas Fielden Life-boat was launched, proceeded outside Salt Island, and found the brig- antine...
Category: Services
IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...
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LV. GREAT YARMOUTH.—The Abra- ham Thomas, 28 feet by 9 feet, 10 oars.
LVI. CAISTER. The Covent Garden, 42 feet by 11J feet, 14 oars.
LVII. Ditto. The Godsend, 33JL feet by 10 feet, 12 oars.
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THE Institution lost last year two very distinguished members of the com- mittee of management, the Viscount Runciman and Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.I.E., C.B.
Lord Runciman, who died on the 14th of...
Category: Obituaries
FERRYSIDE, CAEMAHTHEN BAY.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new Life-boat for this station—the boat, like its predecessor, being named the City of Manchester. It is 32 feet long, 7£ feet wide, and rows 10 oars...
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THE MOVE of the depot from Boreham Wood to Poole was completed on October 1, 1976. Last to come was the machinery; within a fortnight of removal day it was in full operation on the new site.
The RNLI's first storeyard...
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Cyril Jolly's new book! THE LOSS OF THE ENGLISH TRADER RNLI Coxswain Henry Btogg's toughest mission Read how the gallant but temperamental English Trader met her end on Hammond Knoll off the Norfolk Coast in 1941, and how the...
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AT 8 p.m. on Sunday, iyth November, 1963, the honorary secretary of the Mumbles life-boat station, Captain C.
E. Mock, received an anticipatory mes- sage from the Mumbles coastguard.
This stated that the...
Category: Services
October 14th. Soon after noon a gale sprang ijp suddenly i from the eastward. A lar^e' number of! Scarborough fishing vessels, which were outside, had to bear up .and run for the harbour at Scarborough. Vessels which ; fall to...
GILES QUAY, DUNDALK.—The s.s. Duddon, of Whitehaven, bound from Newport, Mon., for Dundalk, with a cargo of coal, went ashore on the bar during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea, on the 16th of October. A steam-tug went to her...