ON the occasion of the hurricane which swept the island of St. Kilda, in the Hebrides, on the 3rd Oct. last, and inflicted such distressing loss on its poor inhabitants, the following were the indications of a Kew Verified Barometer, on...
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Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 1.40 a.m. on 14th May, 1967, news was received that a small yacht was drifting off the Sizewell bank with her engines out of action. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 2.10 in a fresh north...
THE Crewe Photographic Society held a two-days exhibition in April. Two thousand people came to see it. No charge was made, but life-boat collecting boxes were placed in the exhibition.
The sum of £18 10,?. 4d. was...
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Mr H. G. Trimble, a partner of Lewis and Duvivier, the RNLFs consulting civil engineers. In 1963 Mr Trimble took over responsibility for all of the RNLI's business. He retired in 1985 but remained involved in the work for the Institution...
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Aith, Shetlands.-—On the 9th of Jan- uary, 1956, the doctor at Walls asked if the life-boat would take him and a relieving nurse to Foula, because con- tinuous bad weather had isolated the island for nearly a month and at least two people...
The French schooner Volontaire anchored in Pol- kerris Bay on the 30th May during a strong S.W. gale and very heavy sea, and the Life-boat James William and Caroline Courtney, when returning from another vessel, offered her assistance, as it...
• Richard Evans of Moelfre has now joined the distinguished band of lifeboatmen of whom a full-length biography has been written. This is Lifeboat VC by Ian Skidmore (David and Charles, £4.95).
The great rescues from...
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At 6 P.M. on the 4th January a message was received from the Postmaster of Marloes, through the Coastguard, that a small boat was drifting in St. Bride's Bay. The occupants of the boat were the owner of Skomer Island and another man, who...
On the night of the 16th December, the barque Strathleven, of Glasgow, was wrecked, during a strong wind W. by N., half a mile North of Float Bay, about seven miles from Port Logan.
The vessel was under double reefed...
Ramsgate, Kent.—19th September.
A small boat got into difficulties, but was taken in tow by a motor boat.— Rewards, £11 16s..