The Duke of Northumberland, K.G., who died on 23rd August at the early age of fifty, was for twelve years associated with the work of the Institu- tion. On the death in 1918 of his father, the seventh Duke, who was the Institution's...
Category: Obituaries
MARCH 25TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS. On March 17th a doctor telephoned to the station to ask if the life-boat would be available to bring from the Island of Fouls to the mainland a woman who was expecting a baby.
A strong breeze...
At 12.45 a.m. on 27th June, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of the yacht Deux Amis and her crew of four.
She was overdue on passage from Granville and the weather was rapidly deteriorating.
There was...
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking to the east of Peterhead, but other vessels put out, and the life-boat was not launched. At 2.45 next morning the coastguard...
YACHT AGROUND At 4.55 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported to be aground on the Pye Sands, about half a mile outside the mouth of the river. The honorary secretary then telephoned...
NARROW SHAVE ON COD ROCKS PEOPLE at Tre-Arddur Bay, Anglesey, on 2nd September, 1971, saw a dinghy capsize about 50 to 100 yards south west of Cod Rocks. Maroons were fired immediately and at 4.50 p.m. the ILB was launched from Forth...
The Coastguard officer reported at 9.15 j A.M. on the 6th May that there was a ! vessel on the Long Bank signalling for immediate assistance. The assembly signal was fired and the Life-boat Tom ' and Jennie despatched. There...
Bridlington,* Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 17th January the motor fishing boat Peggy left Bridlington harbour to fish about eight miles out.
Later a gale sprang up from the S.S.E.
and the sea became...
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 8.33 P.M. on the 9th November, 1937, the coastguard reported distress signals about eight and a half miles in a north-easterly direction from Cromer. A moderate N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The No. 1 motor...
Dungeness, Kent.—At 9.25 on the night of the llth of September, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that a boat was burning red flares east of Rye Harbour. Ten minutes later the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea...