HELPED CATAMARAN Life-boat O.N. 44-001. Later the same day while the 44-foot steel life-boat O.N. 44-001 was coming out of the river Medina after assisting a sailing dinghy, a catamaran was seen to capsize in the fresh south-westerly breeze...
Arbroath, Angus - At 7 p.m. on 24th November, 1966, it was reported that a Polish trawler was aground on Bell rock. At 7.13 the life-boat, The Duke of Montrose was launched. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat came alongside the...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk - At 8 p.m. on 22nd June, 1967, it was learned that a R.A.F. helicopter had crashed about half a mile south of the life-boat station. The life-boat The Royal Thames was launched at...
Lt-Col D. R. R. Storrie, commanding officer of the Royal Marines, Hamworthy, Poole, reaches deep into the new large lottery drum to pick out a winning ticket. Fred Williams (I), appeals office supervisor, who has spun the drum for every one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
COXSWAIN'S SONS RESCUED Longhope, and Stromness, Orkneys, and Wick, and Thurso, Caithness- shire. At 5.30 p.m. on I7th December, 1963, the coastguard told the Longhope honorary secretary that red flares had been seen in the Pentland...
January 1988 Albert Groom, vice president of the Canvey Island branch. Mr Groom was associated with the branch for 21 years and will be remembered in the Maldon and Ipswich area as the owner of several Thames barges. Whilst based at Maldon...
Category: Obituaries
NOV. 29TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A German aeroplane was reported to have come down into the sea five miles east of the harbour and the life-boat searched a wide area, but could find nothing. The honorary secretary of the...
One of the. first eight motor life-boats to be built for the Institution's fleet was "General Farrell", stationed at St. David's on the coast of South Wales in 1911. She served there until 1936 when she was sold out of the...
Category: Articles
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 21st day of April, 1853, CAPTAIN THE EARL TALBOT, R.N., C.B., VICE-PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee...
Category: Annual Reports
JUNE 13TH. - FISHGUARD AND ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE At 4.40 in the morning a message was received at Fishguard from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire seven miles west of Strumble Head, and at 5.25 the motor life-boat White Star was...