— On the evening of the 12th October a message was received from a contractor that one of his men, who was working on the Bull Fort, in the River Humber, had been taken seriously ill, and that it was necessary to get him to Grimsby as soon...
Poolbeg, Co. Dublin. — At 6.40 on the night of the 13th of March, 1949, a man telephoned to the life-boat station that a pulling boat with two girls in it was drifting down the river Liffy. There was a fresh south- westerly wind, the sea was...
Largs, Ayrshire. At 11.30 a.m. on 23rd May, 1965, the crew of the inshore rescue boat which was on exercise saw a sailing dinghy with two people on board capsize one and a half miles south of the station. The IRB made for the capsized dinghy...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the afternoon of the 26th of Octo- ber', 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that the Brighton police had reported that a rowing boat, with two men on board, had anchored about one hun- dred and fifty...
Dover, Kent.—At 10.45 on the night of the 18th of March, 1954, Lloyds signal station on the eastern harbour arm reported that a boat had flashed SOS three times. At 10.50 the life-boat Southern Africa put out.
The sea was...
ESCORTED FOUR At 1.15 p.m. on i6th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the small fishing coble Nancy was off Flamborough hauling her lobsterpots.
The wind at this time was blowing a near gale...
AFTER A COLLISION At 10.15 p.m. on I2th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the yacht Sarie Marais had been in collision with the coaster Osborne Queen and needed help. The sea was moderate with a moderate...
FOUR YACHTSMEN LANDED FROM DUTCH VESSEL Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.35 on the evening of Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Zundrecht had four survivors from the motor...
TAKEN BY LIFE-BOAT At 10.30 a.m. on 29th December, 1963, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to attend patients on Inishmaan and Inishere Islands. As the weather was bad and as no other boat was available the honorary...
COXSWAIX J. A. ATKINSON died on the 17th of October, 1955, at the age of 76. He was coxswain of the Padstow no. 1 life-boat from 1929 until he retired in 1944. His earliest appoint- ment by the Institution was as mate of the tug Helen Peele...
Category: Obituaries