Admiral Sir John A. S. Eccles, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., C.B.E., died on ist March, 1966, at the age of 67. Sir John, who had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, later applied his vast experience in industry. During the time he was Admiral...
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Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 17th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the German trawler Schell-Ficher. This stated that a mem- mer of her crew...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 30th of Decem- ber, 1959, the life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 2 was launched to take pro- visions to the light-keepers on Chicken Rock lighthouse, who had been cut off for nearly...
Plymouth, Devon. At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 21st of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had asked if the life-boat could take off a family of five who were stranded on Renney rocks off Heybrook...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 15th of July, 1955, the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was bound for her station from Oulton Broad following a routine survey. About 1.10 in the afternoon, when she had reached a position one mile south of Southwold,...
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a sail- ing dinghy had capsized about one and a half miles east of the coastguard station. At 12.3 the life-boat John...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 26th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the tanker Aureity of Lon- don had fallen down a ladder and might have broken some ribs...
LAMPLIGHTER INJURED Walmer, Kent. At 10 a.m. on 28th January, 1964, as the life-boat was about to proceed on exercise with the district engineer, a radio message was intercepted from the South Goodwin lightvessel to Deal coastguard stating...
Dunbar, East Lothian. At 9.53 a.m.
on loth January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that a yawl approximately half a mile off North Berwick Point had capsized and seemed to have disappeared. At 10.8 the...
Wicklow.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 1st of February, 1957, a message was received from the Irish Lights stating that a member of the crew of the Codling lightvessel was suffering from a poisoned hand and asking if the life-boat would...