Readers may be interested in this postcard photograph of Douglas lifeboat. It is one of several that came into the possession of my wife, Manx by birth, from her immediate family.
Although the lifeboat pictures are not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
JANUARY 29TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 7.6 at night a telephone call was received from the naval authorities that H.M. trawler Dunraven Castle had run aground on Iron Rock Ledges, Isle of Arran,...
The barge Mabel, whilst proceeding from Chichester Harbour to Portsmouth on the 8th February, was caught in a heavy squall when off Hayling Island and dismasted. The Master at once let go his anchor, and made signals of distress. In response...
ON the 8th October, 1926, the Aberdovey Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the ketch Madge, of Chester, and saved the vessel. Out of the salvage money received the Crew have given £5 11s. to the Institution.
On...
Category: Donations
DEC. 18TH. - CROMER, SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but she could not be found. - Rewards : Cromer, £39 13s. 6d. ; Sheringham, £37 14s. Wells, £30 9s. 6d..
Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...
The Duke of Kent, who is President of the R.N.L.I., made his first trip in a life-boat and took part in a life-saving exercise at sea during his visit to the Isle of Wight on 21st October.
The boat was the Jack Shayler and...
Category: Articles
DEC. 1ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel standing by two and a half miles north of the life-boat station wished to land a rescued crew. A westerly...
Comnjander M. A. Regan, O.B.E., J.P.
By the sudden death at the age of sixty-three, of Commander M. A. Regan, O.B.E., J.P., the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Hull, the Institution has lost one of its most...
Category: Obituaries
PETERHEAD.—At 5.30 P.M., on the llth September, The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat put off, during a gale from the W.S.W., to the assistance of the schooner Resolue, of Lossiemouth, bound from Shetland for Sunderland in ballast, which...