Contents Volume 51 Number 505 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: LTCDR BRIAN MILES RDMNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOY0 Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15...
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Redcar, Yorkshire.—While homeward bound for Grimsby, on the morning of the 25th September, 1939, the steam trawler Oswaldian, laden with fish and carrying a crew of eleven, ran ashore on the Salt Scar Rocks off Redcar.
The...
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—The tremendous gale which visited the coasts of the United Kingdom on the night of the 26th February blew for several days with great violence, and caused much destruction of property and jeopardized many lives. The...
— On the 23rd March, the brig Jabez, of Scarborough, was stranded on the Dutchman's Bank during a fresh gale from N.W. The Penmon life- boat put off, but after rescuing 5 of the shipwrecked crew, she capsized. She soon righted herself,...
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 7.30 on the evening of the 1st of September, 1956the coastguard telephoned that a French trawler was burning flares a mile and a quarter south of Lowestoft harbour. The life-boat Greater Lon- don (Civil Service No. 3)...
THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on this its fortyfourth anniversary, beg to return their hearty thanks to all those who have kindly given them their moral and pecuniary support; and they desire also publicly to...
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF U.S. NAVAL VESSEL Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the United States naval vessel Upshur, which was 32 miles north-east of...
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.^At 10.30 on the night of the 22nd of December, 1955, a telephone message was received from the Coast Life-Saving Service in Dub- lin that the motor vessel Gansey, of Castletown, had wirelessed that she had damaged her...
New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a woman had reported that her husband had been missing for over three hours in his cabin cruiser, which was equipped...
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. — The schooner Thomas Mason, of Beaumaris, stranded on the West Hoyle bank in a W.N.W. wind, misty weather, and a choppy sea on the 14th October. At 8.30 A.M. the Life-boat proceeded to her, and remained by her until high...