Galway Bay. At 4 p.m. on i3th November, 1965, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Inishmaan island to the mainland for hospital treatment, as no other suitable boat was available. The...
Galway Bay - At 4.10 a.m. on 6th November, 1968, it was learnt that there was a seriously ill man on Inishmaan island. The life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick, with a doctor on board, slipped her moorings at 5.10. There was a strong east north...
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 7.29 a.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sick man aboard the motor vessel Monrose needed medical attention.
The IRB, with a doctor on board, was launched at...
AUGUST 6TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 2.20 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a man adrift in a small dinghy. He had only one oar, and was rapidly being blown out to sea by a strong off-shore wind. At 2.30 the life-boat’s motor...
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Some years ago Campbell MacCallum took a portrait of the people of Wells lifeboat station.
The cover picture on this journal is a similar portrait taken last autumn by Peter J. R.
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Category: Photographs
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During the afternoon of the 14th January, the coxswain reported that a local motor fishing boat, the Victory, had put out for the fishing grounds off Portskerra at 4 A.M. and had not returned. A heavy W.S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 17th of December, 1949, the local fishing coble Brittania, manned by a crew of three, was at sea. It was very rough and there was a north- westerly gale; conditions were so bad in fact,...
IT is with great satisfaction that we record the fact that two old employees of the Institution have received distinction for good work in the field.
LIEUTENANT H. G. SPARY, who was a clerk in the Midland District Office,...
Category: Awards