THE Committee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society have published the following additional appeal on behalf of the establishment of an Asylum or Hospital, for aged Mariners at Belvedere, near Gravesend.
A...
Category: Committee
WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.
He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...
Category: Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death on 23rd November, 1966, at the age of 72, of Colonel Alexander Denis Burnett Brown, O.B.E., M.C., T.D., who was Secretary of the Institution from 1947 to 1960.
He...
Category: Obituaries
Launches 28 Lives rescued 80
JUNE 7TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. At two in the morning a message was received that a motor fishing boat, with five men on board, was adrift in Tralee Bay. A fresh to strong south-west-to-west wind...
Category: Services
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the 8th of April, 1947, the fishing fleet put to sea at about 6.0 in the morning, but by nine o'clock a gale was blowing from the east, and a heavy sea was making the harbour entrance dangerous. As the tide was too...
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 10.50 in the morning of the 22nd of March, 1949, a report was received by telephone that the Cahirciveen motor fishing boat Morning Star, which had gone out the previous evening with a crew of four, had not returned....
NEWS POINT HURRICANE HEROES For those who lived through it, the hurricane which hit the south and south east coasts of England during the early hours of October 16 last will forever be imprinted on their memories.
None more...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (from page 281) The divers were landed at Horton at 1441 and the ILB was rehoused and ready for service by 1516.
For this service the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Helmsman...
Category: Services
ROUGH PASSAGE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.50 p.m. on 26th November, 1963, the medical officer for the port of Penzance and Mount's Bay area informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Arthur Albright, expected in the area at 4.10,...
AT eight o'clock on the evening of the 30th January, 1962, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Stornoway life-boat station in the Outer Hebrides, Captain Alexander Mackay, that a fishing vessel was aground off Battery...
Category: Services