One of the local fishermen, accompanied by his two sons, went off in his open fishing boat about noon on the 2nd June, in a strong breeze from S.W. to haul his lines, which were about H miles east of Blackhead, co. Antrim. He reached the...
SOUTHSEA.—On the 3rd March while a strong gale was blowing, the weather being very cold and thick, with squalls of rain and hail, intelligence was receivedthat a vessel was in distress and that the Warner Light Vessel was sending up rockets....
By the death of Mrs. Ferris Tozer on 7th October the Institution lost one of its oldest and most energetic honorary workers. The Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Exeter, she had been a Life-boat worker for...
Category: Obituaries
ILB launches on service during the months December, 1973, January and February, 1974 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan December 9, February 17 and March 7.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd December 8 and 30.
Broughty...
Category: Services
FOR their part in the rescue of three people from a burning motor boat off Bournemouth, Police Sergeant Douglas H. Carter, aged 43, and Police Constable Arthur E. Farley, aged 46, have received the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum....
Category: Services
MFV aground A RED FLARE fired over Barmouth Bar was seen by the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 2140 on Wednesday November 22, 1978. Just after he had alerted Coxswain Evan Jones, the honorary secretary heard by telephone...
AT 10.30 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station, Captain H. H. Davies, that a man was in danger on a bank opposite the Heswall Yacht Club, and asked if the...
Category: Articles
Thank you to all 131 entries in the Lifeboat winter flash fiction competition. We were delighted so many of you were inspired to put pen to paper. There was a clear winner – a favourite in the office and with flash fiction writer Eleanor...
Category: Articles
AT 4.45 on the morning of the 8th of September, 1954, Edward May, a 44- year-old steel worker from Scunthorpe, waded into the sea at Cap Gris Nez.
He planned to swim to Dover unes- corted and thereby become the first man to...
Category: Services
AT 8.28 on the evening of 16th October, 1967, the coastguard told the acting honorary secretary of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr. C. A. Perry, that a red flare had been sighted at the entrance to the River Blackwater. The maroons...
Category: Services