(continued from page 270) away and, on the first attempt to launch through the heavy surf, the boat was thrown back broadside on to the beach.
With perseverance, however, the crew managed to get through the surf and then...
Category: Articles
At 1 a.m. on 27th July, 1968, the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No.
31) was launched to search for the motor boat Holborn Head, with two people on board, which was overdue on passage from Stromness to...
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 11.35 on the night of the 24th of May, 1952, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned a wireless message from the steam trawler Unitia, of Aberdeen, that she had gone ashore in Rousay Sound and needed help. At 11.45 the life...
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
ON Sunday, ist November, 1964, the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest of all life-boat services was commemorated at Whitby. This was the rescue from the hospital ship Rohilla.
The Rohilla, a vessel of 7,365 tons...
Category: Articles
OEME'S HEAD, CARNARVONSHIRE. — While the Sister's Memorial Life-boat was exercising, at about 10.30 A.M. on the 10th August, a small sailing-boat—the Mira, of Llandudno—was seen to be in danger, and showing signals of distress,...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—About ten o'clock on the night of the 17th of August, 1952, the motor cruiser En- chantress struck the rocks near Stack- poole Head and became a wreck. She had a party of six aboard, and two young men managed to...
Glasgow, June 11, 1986: the relief Arun class lifeboat ON 1108 visited the City of Glasgow for her official naming ceremony and service of dedication. She had been substantially funded from the legacy of a former resident of Glasgow, Miss... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captain David Rees, of New Quay (Cardigan), who died in February, 1937, at the age of eighty-nine, wasone of the oldest of the honorary secretaries of stations. He had held that post at New Quay for forty-seven years. In recognition of his...
Category: Obituaries