AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund on the 18th January, pre- sided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, hon. secretary, re- ported that during the. year the Fund, which...
Category: Meetings
Aith, Shetlands. At 12.54 on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the trawler Ben Bhrackie of Aberdeen, which was then twenty-five miles north of Vee Skerries,...
This 1/12th scale model of the 47-foot Watson Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) ex Thurso life-boat is for sale at £290 of which £80 will be donated to the R.N.L.I. Officials of the Institution agree it is one of the finest life-boat...
Category: Advertisement
While fourteen of' the fishing-cobles belonging to the port were out fishing on the morning of the 2nd December a strong S. gale suddenly sprang up and blew with great violence. The boats at once made for home, but as their lauding was...
JANUARY 18TH . - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. While the fishing fleet was at sea an E.S.E. gale had come up, with a heavy sea, and the harbour entrance was dangerous. At 1.30 P.M. the motor lifeboat John and Charles Kennedy was launched,...
Mrs Lilian Platts who joined the Bristol Ladies Lifeboat Guild in 1942 and was its treasurer from 1956 to 1977.
She was awarded a silver badge in 1967 and a gold badge in 1976..
Category: Obituaries
The life-boat at Cromarty has been withdrawn and the conventional life-boat at Hartlepool has been replaced with a fast IRB.
These decisions follow a review undertaken by a working party of the Committee of Management of...
Category: Articles
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALES.—A small sloop, which proved to be the Fanny, of Fishguard, was observed at 1 P.M. on the 30th September to be showing a signal of distress while at anchor, about a mileto the N.W. of Dinas Head. The -wind •was blowing...
HUNA, CAITHNESS-SHIEE.—During a gale of wind from the W.S.W., and an exceedi ingly rough sea, on the 20th January, the Life-boat W.M.C. was launched, at 1 A.M., to the assistance of the fishing-boat Mar- garet Ounn, of Wick, which was in a...
The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—26th August, 1939. Rockets hadbeen seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her...