SEPTEMBER 18TH. -PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. At 11.21 in the morning the Castletown coastguard reported to the Port Erin life-boat station that the Peel life-boat, had launched at eleven o’clock to search for the herring drifter Manx...
North Deal, Kent.—The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at about 1 A.M. on the 3rd October, in response to signals from the Gull Lightship, during a strong westerly breeze. The boat proceeded to the southern part of the Goodwin Sands and...
IT is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, G.O.B., which took place, at the age of 83, at Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks, on Wednesday, Sep- tember 18th.
Sir Richard Hamilton...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL illuminated so many aspects of our life with the majesty of his words that it is hardly surprising that some of the most stirring sentences ever spoken about a life-boat were uttered by him.
The...
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25 Years Ago Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham-St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a...
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RAMSGATE.—At 11.45 A.M., on the 12th May, during a moderate E. wind and thick weather, signal guns were fired by the light-ships. The Bradford Life-boat went out in tow of the harbour steam-tug Vulcan and found the schooner Edward Arthur, of...
Shortly after 7 P.M. on the 31st August a telephone message was received, stating that the schooner Flower of Portsoy, of Plymouth, was aground on the Platter Rocks, in Holyhead Bay.
The Cemlyn Life-boat, Anne Collin, was...
The Institution has lost, by the death of Miss E.'M. Jordan, of Dover, in April of this year, one of its latest, but one of its most enthusiastic honorary workers.
She became the Honorary Secretary of the Dover...
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Wells, Norfolk.—About 1.30 P.M. on the 8th December, 1937, information was received from a man and from the coastguard that a ship was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 2.50 P.M....
Islay, Hebrides.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1957, the Resident Medical Officer of the Island of Colonsay asked if the life-boat would convey a young woman suffering from appendicitis to Port Askaig in order that she could...