Filey, Yorkshire.—The pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the Third was launched at 7.55 A.M. on the 26th March, as two fishing cobles were at sea in a dangerous position and the weather had got bad. A moderate north breeze was blowing,...
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 11 P.M. on the 5th July the coastguard reported that a light could be seen and shouting heard from a boat to the S.E. of Langney Point. The weather was foggy, with a smooth sea and light W.S.W. wind. The motor...
THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...
Category: Annual Reports
Aberystwyth, and New Quay, Cardigan- shire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1957, the Outward Bound Sea School's ketch Golden Valley left Aberystwyth for New Quay, towing the fifty-feet fishing boat Cornelia, of New Quay. At...
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.14 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored in a dangerous position in heavy seas half a mile south-west of Sandown pier. At 7.26...
MR. BARRIE BENNETTS, the honorary secretary of the Penlee Station, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year's Honours List. He became honorary secretary in 1913, was awarded the Institution's binoculars in...
Category: Awards
Hartlepool, Durham, and Redcar, Yorkshire. — While bound from the River Tees to Blyth the motor vessel Oceanic, of Newport, Isle of Wight, damaged her steering gear and began to drift. At 1.45 in the morning of the 7th of July, when...
Valentia Co. Kerry - At 1.15 a.m. on 22nd December, 1968, Valentia radio station told the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Sea Flower of Castletownbere was in distress in the Ardgroon harbour area. Maroonswere fired at 1.20. There was a...
At 10.20 a.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small sailing boat was seen being carried to seaward by the wind and tide. At 10.40 the life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched in a fresh westerly wind and a choppy sea. It was one hour and a half after...
At 3.20 p.m. on 28th October, 1966, the local doctor requested the services of the life-boat for a patient on Inishere Island who needed hospital treatment.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompsonleft her moorings at 3.45. The...