n the fishing cobles went to sea at about 5.45 A.M. on 15th March the weather was misty with a strong swell running.
With the flowing tide the sea increased until, at 8.30 A.M., it was decided to launch the Pulling and...
Dover, Kent. At 12.51 on the after- noon of the llth of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two people were cut off by the tide two hundred yards south of St.
Margaret's Bay. There was a...
SICK BOY TAKEN OFF ISLAND Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 9.45 on the evening of the 20th April, 1963, the life-boat motor mechanic informed the coastguard that he could see a fire on Copeland Island, where he knew about eight people were spending...
Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...
South-West of England.
AT this conference delegates from twenty-two branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cornwall, Devonshire and Somerset met at Plymouth on the 22nd March. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Meetings
Injured couple rescued from yacht aground in heavy surfThe Chairman of the RNLI, Michael Vernon, has written a letter of congratulation to helmsman William Walker-Jones of Criccieth's inshore lifeboat following the rescue of two people...
MAN TAKEN ON BOARD AND DINGHY TOWED IN Hastings, Sussex. At 3.58 on the afternoon of the 22nd March, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic, in the absence of the honorary secretary, that the Bexhill police had reported a dinghy...
THE ORIGINAL.
TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For craft up to 50ft. over 100lbs.
thrust. Self-contained unit with simple 2-hole installation. Quickly disengaged. 3 amp. average...
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Miss ALICE SUSANNA MARSHALL died at Oxford on the 2nd of January, 1951, at over 90 years of age. She had been one of the most distinguished of the honor- ary secretaries of financial branches, and gave the Institution her enthusiastic and...
Category: Obituaries
ABERSOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...