THE Stromness Motor Life-boat has already shown on more than one occasion what a Motor Life-boat can do in the way of long-distance services. One of these was described in The Life-Boat for February this year. On that occasion she travelled...
On the 6th February, about half-past four in the morning, one of the pilots at the harbour reported that a vessel was ashore on the north side of the bar and required assistance. The crew of the Life-boat were promptly summoned, and in...
Caister, Norfolk.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 2nd of April, 1956, the local Superintendent of Trinity House rang up to say that a man on the Cross Sand lightvessel had been badly injured. He asked if the life-boat would take him ashore,...
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that the sailing boat Dolphin had cap- sized near the Bailey lighthouse. At 5.25 the life-boat R.P.L. put out in smooth sea. There...
Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.10 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent of a request from the Superintendent of Trinity House, Great Yarmouth, for the life-boat to land the master of the...
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 12.45 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the phoenix 121, one of the concrete caissons used for building the invasion port on the coast of Normandy, to which the life-boat had...
In the front row of the platform, from left to right, are :—Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt. (Chairman of the Committee of Management), the ROT. W. L. Robertson (General Secretary of the Presbyterian Church of England), the Rev. H. D. L. Viener... - View image in PDF
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During a thick fog on the night of the 13th October a large steamer named the Hammershus belonging to Copenhagen, stranded in Lamorna Cove. At the time a moderate S.S.E. wind was blowing with a rough sea. The Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche...
Selsey, Sussex. At 3.15 on the morn- ing of the 6th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a man had collapsed aboard the Owers lightvessel, and that the services of a doctor were required. At 3.40 the...
Thursday, July 2nd, 1867. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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