Padstow, and St. Ires, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the evening of the 25th of Sept- ember, 1949, the Trevose Head coast- guard telephoned the Padstow life-boat authorities that a rowing boat with a crew of four was trying to get ashore in...
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother named the new Thurso life-boat—-a 48-foot 6-inch Solent class boat—on llth August, by the Hotel Quay, Scrabster Harbour.
Named The Three Sisters, she was paid for by an anonymous...
Category: Inaugurations
Torbay, Devon - At 8.45 p.m. on June, 1967, the coastguard and the honorary secretary conferred with regard to an unidentified 'Mayday' call which had been received. It was decided not tolaunch the life-boat until further information...
Man unconscious A STRONG south-westerly breeze, force 6, was blowing on the afternoon of Wednesday July 17, 1985, when New Quay's (Dyfed) 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Birds Eye, launched after the coastguard had reported a fishing vessel...
FEBRUARY 20TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 12.20 in the morning news was received at Fleetwood lifeboat station from the harbour staff that a trawler was showing distress signals. A north-westerly gale was blowing, with a very...
Robert Burgon, at one time Coxswain of the Berwick-on-Tweed Station, was drowned, on the morning of 24th March, with two other men in a motor fishingboat which was swamped by heavy seas and sank when crossing the bar on their way home. Born...
Category: Obituaries
IN the last few months money has been raised for the Institution in a number of new and striking ways. A particularly welcome gift was one of £155 which came from Miss Erica Marx, of the Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, Kent. This...
Category: Donations
The Calendar.
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the rescue by...
Category: Advertisement
IT was just after dark on the 26th of March (at 7.12 p.m.) when the coast- guard at Newhaven reported a trawler drifting shorewards, something less than a mile south-east of the harbour.
Quarter of an hour later he said she...
Category: Services
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 11.45 on the night of the 16th of December,1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Ilfracombe radio station that the trawler Suzanne Adrianne of Ostend was sinking near the...