NOVEMBER 6TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At 10.30 P.M. the coastguard at Donaghadee reported a steamer ashore in Belfast Lough. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, but the sea was rough. A later message asked for help, and the...
Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 4 p.m. on 9th November, 1966, news was received that a member of the crew of the Spanish trawler Madre-de-Cristo had been badly injured, and it was requested that the life-boat meet the trawler at about 7 o'clock...
Injured climber HOLYHEAD COASTGUARD received WOrd on the evening of Saturday August 17, 1985, that a climber had fallen and was injured on the Go-Garth cliffs, four miles west of Holyhead. Maroons were fired and at 2130 Holyhead's 44ft...
December 1998 Reginald Frederick Bailey, former Walmer second coxswain. Reginald was a crew member for over 13 years, bowman for over 4 years and second coxswain for 3 years.
He was awarded a certificate of thanks in...
Category: Obituaries
DURING 1936 sixty-four golf clubs in Great Britain and Ireland held competitions in aid of the life-boat service for which the Institution presented spoons as prizes. As a result the clubs contributed £196 11s....
Category: Articles
[These extracts are from Dame Millicent Fawcett's book of reminiscences, " What I Remember," which were published (12*. 6d. net) last autumn. They are made by her kind permission, and that of her publishers, Messrs. T. Fisher...
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Honorary Life-Governor.
Commander HUBERT B. BOOTHBY, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the Littlehampton branch, has been appointed an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recog- nition of the valuable services which he...
Category: Awards
On the 19th of February, the schooners March, of Liverpool, and Richard, of Ban- gor, were stranded in Moelfre Bay, during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. Both vessels at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly responded to...
Helmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton - a bar to the Bronze medal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
MR. FRANK GARON, the chairman of the Southend-on-Sea branch died on the 29th of July at the age of sixty. A director of the big catering firm of Garons in Southend, he was another of the many busy men who yet are able to give much of their...
Category: Obituaries