At 3.30 A.M. on the 31st October two cobles proceeded to the fishing grounds, and, while fishing, a strong gale suddenly sprang up from the N.E., bringing with it a rough and heavy sea.
At 7 A.M., when the boats attempted...
On the 10th April the motor schooner Edith May, of Wexford, bound from Douglas to Ardrossan with a cargo of scrap iron, was overtaken by bad weather and anchored. A whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and heavy rain. Her anchors...
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At about 9.30 in the morning of the 29th of November, 1947, the Runswick life-boat station telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Venus, of Whitby, had broken down oft Staithes and needed help. She was reported to be...
On .the night of the 30th this life- boat again put off. The ship Lillies, with 1,600 tons of coals on board, be- longing to St. John's, New Brunswick, and bound from Liverpool to Bombay, showed signals of distress off Fleetwood, when...
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At midnight on the 17th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported seeing two small boats, each with two men on board, off Bispham. The men were said to be shouting for help. At 12...
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on 3oth March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two small fishing boats which had put out in fine weather had got into difficulties when the weather suddenly became worse. The life-boat...
MONTROSE and JOHNSHAVEN.—On the 29th February a heavy sea was breaking on the bar at Montrose and a strong wind from the E.N.B. suddenly sprung up.
As three of the fishing boats were at sea the Life-boat Augusta was...
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TROON DECEMBER 6TH. - TROON, AYR-SHIRE During the afternoon a whole gale from the north-west was blowing, with a very heavy sea running and fierce squalls of hail. It was described as the worst on that coast for many...
THE annual meeting of the committee of this fund was held on the 10th Jan. at the General Post Office, and was presided over by Mr. W. H. HAINES, of the House of Lords. A highly satis- factory balance-sheet was laid before the com- mittee by...
Category: Meetings
BY the death of Mr. William Cole, of Ilfracombe, at the age of seventy-five, in April of this year, the Institution lost a warm friend and worker and one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. He was appointed in 1890 and held the position...
Category: Obituaries