PETERHEAD.—On the 13th April the Life-boat George Pickard was launched at 2.20 P.M. to the assistance of a fishing boat which was in danger, her mast having been carried away in a whole gale from S.E. and a heavy sea. Other boats, however,...
GALLANT hearts are pulling— Pulling might and main, Through the boiling breakers, Through the blinding rain; Anxious eyes are watching— Watching from the shore, Fiercely blows the tempest, Loud the ocean's roar.
Gallant...
Category: Poetry
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—At 11 A.M. on the 14th October a messenger arrived on horseback at Moelfre from Eed Wharf, a distance of about four miles, stating that a fishing-boat, with three men on board, was caught in a violent storm, and that the...
Selsey, Sussex, and Bembridge, Isle of Wight. 26th July. Unsuccessful search made for a small boat.—Rewards, Sel- sey, £11 15s.; Bembridge, £13 10s..
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 6 P.M. on the 19th August the Sheringham motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched on exercise. Seeing an unusual object about a mile and a half off West Runton, she closed with it and found it to be a small...
Walmer, Kent.—At 2.20 P.M. on 19th August, the Deal coastguard telephoned that East Goodwin light-vessel had reported a small boat, about one mile E.S.E. of the light-vessel, in urgent need of help. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 9.25 in the evening of the 21st of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat, with three Royal Air Force cadets on board, was in difficulties about half a mile to the eastward of Salt Island Point,...
THE Institution is issuing to living holders of its gold, silver and bronze medals, miniature reproductions of their medals. These miniatures will be half the size of the originals. They will have on them the reverse of j the originals,...
Category: Medals
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— At 8.30 in the evening of the 31st of May, 1949, the Coast Life-saving Service at Blackwater reported that a fishing boat, which had been at anchor close inshore since noon, had now hoisted a flag, and the...
A model of the life-boat, Queen Victoria, in the battle of flowers at Guernsey.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs