Berwick- on- Tweed, Northumberland, and Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—On the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor vessel Tonny, of Dordrecht, appeared to be aground off Berwick.
A little later she was seen to move...
The Flying Dutchman WHEN his 24-foot yacht Claesjenguy lost her rigging off Hastings on June 2, Mr P. W. Stoel, a Dutchman working for the BBC, had cause to be grateful for the services of three RNLI lifeboats.
Although he...
SECOND LAUNCH TO FISHING BOAT IN SAME YEAR Plymouth, Devon. At 10.15 on the night of the 17th June, 1962, the coastguard at Rame Head told the honorary secretary a boat was under observation about a quarter of a mile south-west of the...
DOCTOR J. LEIPER, of Aberdeen, has been awarded a special certificate on vellum for the part he played when he was transferred at great risk from the Aberdeen life-boat to a German trawler to treat an injured man.
At 5 p.m....
Category: Awards
Two lifeboats in night search for disabled yacht in heavy seas The Institution's chief of operations has written to Stephen Vince, the Coxswain/Mechanic of Poole lifeboat, to congratulate him on his leadership and boat handling skill...
A mock Viking longship—one of four glass fibre replicas belonging to the Viking Longship Association—ran into trouble in Peel Harbour, on the Isle of Man, during a local carnival on August 2, 1987, when it began leaking and became submerged... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the 22nd September, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the smack Wasp, of Belfast, had her sails blown away, and drove ashore at Kingmore, in Dundrum Bay. The Memorial Life-boat put off to her assistance and rescued the crew, consisting of...
The No. 2 Life-boat was also launched, at about 11.30 A.M. on the 8th August, to the assistance of several fishing boats which had been caught in a gale from the S., and were in great danger while making for Montrose. The Life-boat remained...
PENZANCE.—During a strong S.S.W.
gale and a heavy sea on the 31st of January, the Life-boat Dora was launched at 7.30 A.M., in reply to signals of distress shown by the barque Petrellen, of Porsgrund, Norway, which was...
"Oh, many a bark, to that breast grappled fast, Has gone down to the fearful and fathomless grave; Again, crash'd together the keel and the mast, To je seen tost aloft in the glee of the wave1." SCHILLER L 2.
Category: Poetry