FEBRUARY 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 3.5 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that German aeroplanes had dropped bombs and later that a vessel was reported to be firing red flares. At 3.50 the No. 1 motor life-boat...
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns from the Gull and Goodwin Lightships were heard at 10.30 A.M. on the 3rd May, and a schooner was seen to run ashore on the North Sand Head. The wind at the time was blowing from the N. The Life-boat Bradford and harbour...
PRINCESS VICTORIA
Our feature on the Princess Victoria disaster in the spring issue evoked some memories for readers:
Pamela Miley writes:
Your article on the Princess Victoria brought back memories...
Category: Articles
At daybreak on the 27th of February, a vessel of Dundalk, which proved to be the brigantiue Ida, was observed ashore near Black Rock — near the entrance of the harbour of Dun- dalk. A gale was blowing from the E., and a considerable sea was...
The new boat, presented by the Free- masons of "Warwickshire, and named the Lady Leigh, soon inaugurated its mission of mercy, it having been called out on service on the evening of Sunday the 10th Nov. The brig Palestine, of Whitby,...
THORPENESS, SUFFOLK.—The Life-boat Christopher North Graham was called out on service on the morning of the llth October, while a moderate gale was blowing from the S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea. The boat was launched at 6.30, and half-an...
EASTBOURNE.—The barge Eureka, Rochester, laden with linseed cake and oats, hoisted a signal of distress while riding at anchor in the offing in a strong 3. wind and thick weather, accompanied by a heavy sea, on the morning of the 8th July....
Lieutenant F. W. Hayes, E.N.B., late District Inspector of Life-boats, died in a nursing home on 21st August. He was only in his thirty-fourth year. He was educated at Malvern College, and then became a cadet on H.M.S....
Category: Obituaries
IN the last issue of The Life-boat two cases were recorded of ladies who had continued their work for the life-boat service when crippled by serious acci- dents. There is a third to be added to them. Miss Silvester, the honorary secretary of...
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A party of four men and six women, students from the University, had an exciting adventure near Aberystwyth on the 17th April. They left Aber- ystwyth in the morning in two of the college racing boats to proceed to Monks Cave, a resort about...