Bronze-Medal Service at Fraserburgh. SHORTLY before two o'clock in the morning of 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen, outward bound, with a crew of nine, went ashore in a snow- storm between Sandhaven and Rose- hearty, four...
Category: Services
Hastings, Sussex. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing vessel Valiant had engine trouble and was having difficulty in making the beach at Hastings. At 1.6 the life-boat M.T.C...
Margate, Kent.—At 1.10 in the after- noon of the 29th of March, 1948, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, had capsized between one and two miles east of the life-boat station, and the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough—Civil...
THREE MEN RESCUED AFTER DINGHY CAPSIZES Douglas, Isle of Man. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 24th May, 1962, the police informed the coxswain that a sailing dinghy had capsized in Douglas Bay about a quarter of a mile off...
HERRING DRIFTER BREAKS AWAY FROM TUG Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 8.50 on the evening of the 10th November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a tug towing the Scottish herring drifter Silver Wave, which had a crew of eight,...
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, are often attracted to this large R.N.L.I. codfish collecting box which stands at the approach to the beach. Mr.
W. E. Russell is the honorary volunteer emptier of this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In days gone by. . .
I thought readers may be interested to see this old photograph, taken around 1916, of girls collecting for the lifeboats.
My mother, Lillian (nee) Bosworth, is the girl on the right... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
EX-TORPEDO-BOAT DRIFTING Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 4.40 in the afternoon of the 7th of September, 1947, information was received by wireless, telegraph and telephone that a motor vessel had been seen drifting by the steamer Eddystone, when off...
Mr. James A. Gardiner, of Campbel- town, Argyllshire, who died on 19th January, 1938, at the age of seventy- eight, had been one of the most dis- tinguished honorary workers of the Institution in Scotland. He was honor- ary secretary of...
Category: Obituaries
At 2 P.M. on the 6th May, the steamer Queen Louise, of Glasgow, carrying a crew of twenty-nine persons, stranded oi\ the rocks half a mile south of Seaham. There was a moderate N.E. wind blowing with a heavy ground swell, and this prevented...