— During a terrific S.E. gale on the 22nd February, the ship Arctic Stream, of Glasgow, was totally wrecked between Cresswell and New- biggin. She was bound at the time from Leith to the Tyne in ballast. The Life-boats Ada Lewis, of...
Birthday Honours Knights Bachelor John Henry Loveridge, CBE, Bailiff of Guernsey. Sir John is vice-president of the Guernsey branch.
QBE Roy Ernest Bailhache, Jurat, Royal Court of Jersey. Jurat Bailhache is chairman of the...
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Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 9.55 on the morning of the 29th of October.
1956. a Burnmouth fisherman tele- phoned the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel Rose Valley. of Burnmouth, was making for Eye- mouth harbour...
22nd September. A yacht had been seen flying a flag which the coxswain thought was a,t half-mast as a signal of distress, but when the life-boat arrived she found that this was not so and the yacht was in no need of help.—Rewards, £10...
While the watchman was on duty on the morning of the 7th April, during a W.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, a diving boat belonging to the Railway Company was seen to part from her moorings at 10.30 A.M. She drifted out to sea and a small...
ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.12 on the morning of the 25th of April, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Neula, an ex-R.N.L.I.
life-boat formerly stationed at Aber- ystwyth, was flying a distress...
MAY 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.10 in the morning the police reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea opposite Cleveleys Hydro. There was a variable north-east wind and the sea calm.
At...
Z-BOATS to the rescue...
Oulboj'd En-Jin* InUfrtl Trillion Mittrtii n.rr bottom board*! M-in hull of S icpjritt Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capableof...
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Eight men plucked from fishing vesselCoxswain Albert Sutherland of the Fraserburgh lifeboat City of Edinburgh has been awarded the thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on vellum following a service in which the...