PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the Institution's President, will name the new Llandudno life-boat on 15th May and the new St. David's life-boat on igth May. At the time of going to press dates for other cere- monies have not been...
Category: Inaugurations
.—Four of the fishing cobles belonging to St. Abbs were overtaken by bad weather when at sea on the 19th March, and were in great stress owing to the heavy sea running. The Life-boat Helen Smitton was launched and stood by three of the boats...
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1 st March, 1971 to 31 st May, 1971: Launches 494, lives saved 227 THE ACTIVE FLEET (as at 31/5/71) 135 station life-boats 111 inshore rescue boats LIVES RESCUED 93,507 from the Institution'...
Category: Services
JANUARY 20TH. - FALMOUTH, CORN- WALL. At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard at St. Anthony reported that a vessel was flying a distress signal three miles S.W. of St.
Anthony. A fresh S.S.E. wind was blowing, with a nasty swell....
Left: (L–R) Si Moulton, Chic Pritchard, Jurg Brumner, Hugh Pierce and Tony Sherwin Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thursday, 5th Jan., 1865. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—The schooner Jane Smith, of Plymouth, bound from Llanelly to Ipswich with coal, was observed running for St. Ives Harbour at about 8 A.M. on the 15th of September, during a strong gale from the N. and heavy sea, with a...
APRIL 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.41 A.M. a message was received from the St. Agnes coastguard that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles N.E. by N. from Portreath, and at 7.38 A.M. the...
The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all...
Category: Articles
Sennen Cove, Cornwall; and St.
Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 8.12 on the evening of the 28th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the Sennen Cove honorary secretary that the Southern Rescue Coordination Centre at Ply- mouth...