Stronsay, Orkneys - At 6 a.m. on 5th March, 1966, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the doctor on Sanday Island stating that he had an urgent case requiring immediate hospital attention in Kirkwall. Because of land...
DECEMBER 2ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 5.15 P .M.
message was received from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had been mined three-quarters of a mile east of Tynemouth Piers. A light westerly breeze was...
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 23rd of June, 1955, the Skerries Sailing Club reported that the 17-feet yacht Deirdre, of Rush, with a crew of two, had left Rush at seven o'clock for Skerries, but wasnow drifting...
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.18 p.m. on 6th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with four men on board was overdue. At 9.45 the life-boat Edian Courtauld proceeded to search for the fishing...
Oliver Warner, the distinguished naval historian who was the author of The Life-boat Service, a history of the RNLI from 1824-1974, written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Institution..
Category: Obituaries
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
Stronsay, Orkneys - At 10.20 p.m.
on 6th September, 1966, news was received that a patient on the Isle of Sanday needed medical attention. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her moorings at 10.45 in a gale...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—14th December. A steamer had been in collision with the Newarp light-vessel, but she did not need help.
In response to flares the life-boat then went to Horsey Gap,...
On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded, after some difficulty,...
CULLERCOATS.—On the 8th May the Palmerston Life-boat was launched to theaid of several fishing vessels which hadbeen overtaken by a heavy sea, rendering it dangerous for them to cross the bar in returning to port. The boat remainec some time...