Coxswain Edwin Matthews, of the Lizard, has died at the age of eighty- seven. He became second coxswain in 1867, and coxswain in 1876, retiring in 1900 after thirty-three years as an officer ot the life-boat. During that time the station...
Category: Obituaries
Dungeness, Kent.—There was fog in the morning of the 2nd of March, 1948, and at 8.20 distress signals were heard. At 8.45 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a moderate north-easterly breeze, with a choppy sea, and...
Buckle, Banffshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Spinaway of Lossiemouth was asking for assistance as she was leaking. At 9.5 the life-boat...
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...
THE life-boat Vice-Amiral Schwerer stationed at Etel in France capsized near the entrance to Lorient harbour on the 3rd of October, 1958. Her whole crew of five, consisting of the coxswain, mechanic, radio-operator and two other members of...
Category: Articles
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 2nd of November, 1955, the weather worsened while the fishing coble Venture was still at sea with a crew of three, and at 11.20 the life- boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted was launched. She was due to...
DOCTOR'S APPEAL At 9 a.m. on 7th February, 1964, the doctor on Sark asked the honorary secretary through the St. John Ambulance Commissioner if the life-boat could take an injured woman from Sark for treatment at Guernsey Hospital. There...
INDIAN SEAMAN At 12.45 a-m- on ist November, 1964, the honorary secretary heard that an Indian seaman on board a vessel anchored near the Bar lightvessel was in urgent need of medical treatment. There was a smooth sea with very little wind...
TREATED WITH THE RESPECT (AND THE PAINTS) SHE DESERVES! The old Shields life-boat the Tyne, now preserved as shown here, is well protected with B.P.L. materials—paints which themselves hold an enviable reputation for service under the...
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AN exhibition of Dutch and Flemish pictures was held in his Bond Street gallery, in May and June, by Mr.
Eugene Slatter, and he very kindly gave the money from the sale of the catalogues to the Institution. The exhibition...
Category: Donations