By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He...
Category: Obituaries
Kilmore, Wexford.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of Monday the 17th of July, 1950, signal flares were observed on the Great Saltee Island. A bird watcher with his wife and two children aged eight and two were known to be on the island...
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—At 4.20 A.M., on the 18th May, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W., a screw-steamer was seen ashore on the North Sand Head, with signals of distress flying; and about the same time signal guns were fired from the...
Peel, Isle of Man.—29th May, 1939.
A competitor in the Manx Air Races had crashed into the sea, but he was picked up by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £7 13s..
As reported in the last issue of the Lifeboat, Loch Ness lifeboat station joined the RNLI fold on 2 April, and the crew have since been out on a number of shouts. At the time of writing, they had assisted two grounded cruisers and two yachts...
Category: Articles
To JAMES E. BUMBLE, on his retirement, after serving for twenty-two years as coxswain of the Sheringham life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
To DAVID ARTHUR, on his retirement, after serving...
Category: Awards
Tragic search for missing girlSunderland's Watson class lifeboat William Myers and Sara Jane Myers launched at 1630 on 10 February 1990 following an alert from Tyne Tees Coastguard that a girl had been swept off the promenade at Seaburn,...
Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.25 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the s.s. Pompey Light of Portsmouth that she was standing by the cabin cruiser Warwick,...
29th October. Distress flares reported but nothing could be found. It was prob- ably the aeroplane to which Dover also launched.—Rewards £40 7s. 9d.
(A full account of this launch appears on p. 8, of this...
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.20 on the after- noon of the 20th of May, 1955, the Selsey coastguard telephoned that the R.A.F. No. 19 Group had reported that a jet aircraft of the R.A.F., with a crew of two, had crashed fifteen miles south of Selsey...