The Government Seaplane No. 11, whilst flying from Sheerness to Harwich on the 1st April dropped into the sea when about four miles W.S.W. of Clacfcon. Instructions were given for the Life-boat Albert Edward to proceed to her assistance, and...
HELP FOR CARPENTER Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 a.m. on 2Oth January, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a carpenter in a Greek motor vessel had severely injured his leg and needed medical treatment. The crew...
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant Life-boat Crew of the little village of Rye Harbour, sweeping away practically the whole adult...
Category: Articles
By C. V. FABRICIUS, Manager of the North Jutland Life-Boat Institution.
THE Danish Life-Boat Institution, as at present organised, was established by the Act of 26th March, 1852.
It is an institution...
Category: Articles
TT appears from the Annual Wreck Register of the British Isles, just published under the auspices of the Board of Trade, that 2,513 shipwrecks, representing a registered tonnage of 464,000 tons, took place in the seas and on the coasts of...
Category: Annual Reports
AT 9.26 on the night of the 21st of October, 1955, the Southend coxswain, Sidney Page, learnt from the coast- guard that the S.S. Cardiff brook had wirelessed that she had seen a ship aground one mile north-north-west of the North-East Mouse...
Category: Services
Atlantic On The Other End Of The Tow Line!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A fair breeze the sails of the good ship was swelling, As gallantly homeward she sped on her way; While the song of the sailors was joyously telling, " Home looms in the distance, love brooks no delay." "Y'heave-ho, with...
Category: Poetry
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—Early in the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, a strong S.S.E. gale arose, with a rough sea and heavy rain. The two motor cobles Hilda and Kingfisher were at sea to the northward, and in great danger of being...
David Tate, honorary treasurer of St Albans & District branch from 1966 to 1986. He then became vice chairman and subsequently vice president of the branch. Mr Tate was awarded a silver badge in 1987..
Category: Obituaries