Torbay, Devon. — At 6 P.M. on the 19th September the Berry Headcoastguard reported that a man had fallen over the cliff at Berry Head on to a ledge close to the water. He had been helping three others, who had got into difficulties when...
Aldeburgh, and Lowes toft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 14th February, 1938, the Aldeburgh motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 8.30 A.M. on information from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a fishing smack was in distress several...
By the death on 26th October, at the age of seventy-nine, of Alderman Thomas E. Purdy, J.P., president of the Colwyn Bay branch, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most distinguished honorary workers. For many years he worked...
Category: Obituaries
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. -— On the afternoon of the 2nd September the coxswain, who knew that the motor launch which attends on the residents of Steep Holm Island was away at the island, kept a look out for her, as a fresh S.S.E. breeze...
On the morn- ing of the llth January, the steam trawler Prosper, of Ostend, bound from Ostend to the Orkney fishing grounds, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, increasing later to a whole gale....
THE Royal Humane Society has pre- sented its Testimonial on Parchment and Resuscitation Certificate to Robert Charles Davis, the bowman of the Cromer life-boat, and its Resuscitation Certificate to Coxswain Henry Thomas Davis for the rescue...
Category: Awards
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.5 in the afternoon, on the 18th of January, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the Wick radio station had reported the motor ship Tatra of Tonsberg, broken down and in distress, twenty-three miles...
Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the of the 3rd of July, 1955, the beach superintendent at Whitley Bay rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that a boat had burnt flares in Whitley Bay and appeared to be...
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.10 on the evening of the 20th of December, ] 955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that flares had been seen between Hoy Head and Graemsay. At 9.23 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander M. Pater son was...
Margate, Kent. — At 4.41 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that two yachts appeared to be ashore on Margate sands some four and a half miles from Margate pier. The life- boat North Foreland (Civil...