Weymouth, Dorset.—At 12.5 in the afternoon of the 27th of March, 1949, the Portland Bill coastguard reported a small motor yacht in distress, apparently broken down and drifting.
Twenty minutes later the life-boat William...
From the painting presented to the Museum by his daughter, Lady Hicks. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 2.30 P.M. on the 8th August, 1938, information was received that a ship was ashore on Whitburn Steel. Later it was reported that a trawler also was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light northerly breeze. It was...
At 6.10 P.M.
on the 18th September, one of the Life-boat Crew reported to the Cox- swain that a small yacht, the Thrush, of Hull, had stranded on the end -of Spurn Point. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.40 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a wireless message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sigurdrinde that a yacht had been taken in tow...
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.45 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October. 1952, the life-boat coxswain reported that a local man had put off in his fishing coble Isabella to attend to his crab-pots in bad weather. The weather was deteri- orating...
Arbroath, Angus.—About 11.45 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that fishing boats were still at sea in deteriorating weather and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The life-boat Robert...
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—Beginning on the evening of the 31st of January, 1953, floods inun- dated areas in the east of England to an extent unknown in this country in living memory. The Southend-on- Sea life-boat was...
A deckhand from the Grimsby trawler Riviere being brought ashore from the Flamborough life-boat (See page 567). - View image in PDF
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Mr. J. S. WOOD, at one time secretary of the Hartlepool Port and Harbour Commission, who died on the 15th of May, 1953, at the age of 60, was for twenty years the honorary secretary of the Hartlepool life-boat station.
He...
Category: Obituaries