Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...
Tyne rescues crews of two yachts in galeThe Director of the RNLI has written to thank the crew of the Ramsgate lifeboatfor a service 'carried out very professionally' after the station's Tyne had rescued the crews of two yachts...
James Chisholm, ex-Coxswain of St.
Andrews, died on the 14th March last, at the age of 81. He had served as Second Coxswain from 1887 until 1892, and as Coxswain from 1892 until 1920, when he retired at the age of 71, and...
Category: Obituaries
The steam trawler James Lay, of London, with a crew of fourteen on board, bound for Hull, laden with fish, grounded on Filey Brigg at about 8 A.M. on the 12th January in a thick fog. The sea was smooth. Cobles endeavoured to refloat the...
STONEHAVEN.—The barge Der Zehnte Juni, of South Shields, bound from Sunderland for Aberdeen, with a cargo of coal, experienced a good deal of stormy weather on her voyage, and on the 15th March, she was labouring heavily in the teeth of a...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the afternoon of the 9th September, 1938, a small boat carrying two men and a seven-year-old girl capsized about three-quarters of a mile off Shoreham beach. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a...
On the night of the 13th August the coast watcher at Babbacombe reported that a speed-boat was in difficulties, close to the shore, between Babbacombe and Anstey's Cove, Torquay. The east wind was very right, but a very strong easterly...
On the afternoon of the 20th July the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, when off Sconce Point on her return to Yarmouth from exercise off Milford, saw a motor dinghy from the yacht Wishbone drift- ing rapidly towards Shingle...
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lanes.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th of April, 1957, a Preston firm of shipping agents telephoned to say they had received a call from the master of the tanker B.P. Marketer, of London, reporting that a member...