The sloop Chester- field, of Lynn, whilst bound to Hull, laden with gravel, stranded on the Inner Sinks on the 9th September.
Coxswain Cross immediately assembled his crew and proceeded to the vessel in the boarding...
As our readers know, the Institution makes awards for all rescues or attempted rescues of those in peril from shipwreck round the coasts of the United Kingdom, whether the rescues are performed by the Life-boat crews themselves or by private...
Category: Medals
New Appointments.
THE Viscountess Bertie of Tliame, who has been Chairman of the Central London Women's Committee of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild since 1925, has resigned, owing to the fact that she is now living...
Category: Articles
On 22nd February the Happy Harry, a schooner belonging to Whitehaven, bound, laden, from Glasgow to Wexford with a crew of four on board, ran ashore on the North Dogger Bank. She was seen by the Harbour Master, who telephoned to the...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.39 P.M.
on the 14th June, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that the motor yacht Mayflower, of Great Yarmouth, was ashore at Jaywick. As the yacht was not then in a dangerous...
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7 P.M. on the 28th June, 1939J a message was received from the coastguard that a motor yacht two miles to the S.W.
was drifting, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing,...
FOOD TO MAROONED SHEPHERDS Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 12.30 in the afternoon of the 28th of April, 1947, word was received from the relatives of two shepherds, marooned on Mingalay Island by the bad weather, that the men's food...
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
On the 31st July the barge Audrey, of London, with a crew of two, had her sails carried away in the Whitaker channel, while bound from London to Rochford with a cargo of wheat. A moderate to strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
YACHT AGROUND Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.15 in the evening of the 14th of September, 1947, the Lymington police telephoned that a yacht was in distress near Warren Beach, and the motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the...