Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A., the life-boat designer, who last year retired from full-time service with the Institution, received a letter in November, 1966, from Coxswain W. Sheader, of the Scarborough lifeboat J. G. Graves of...
Category: Correspondence
ON the morning of 27th January, 1937, the Russian steamer Kingissepp, of Leningrad, was anchored about a mile off the harbour of Nairn on the Moray Firth. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. A boat was seen to put off from the...
Category: Services
LIFE-BOATMAN CARRIES TWO BOYS ASHORE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.25 on the night of the 4th June, 1963, the Formby coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four boys were marooned on a marker buoy off Hall Road, Crosby. At 10.40 the...
COLONEL A. D. BURNETT BROWN, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., M.A.. retired from the post of Secretary of the Institution on the 30th of June, 1960, after twenty- nine years in the Institution's service.
He came to the Institution...
Category: Committee
MOTOR FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR ENTRANCE Stromness, Orkneys. At 11.21 on the night of the 25th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the motor fishing vessel Wave Sheaf of Lossiemouth was ashore near the Point of...
GREEK VESSEL AGROUND At n.20 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, a message was received over the radiotelephone from Humber radio station that a small vessel, aground half a mile from Spurn Point, was asking for assistance.
The...