The committee of management also regret the death of another colleague, Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Mansell, K.C.V.O., C.B.E., D.L., J.P., an Elder Brother of Trinity House, who died on 26th April, at the age of...
Category: Obituaries
Dover, Kent. At 11.30 on the morning of the 16th September, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was in difficulties a mile and a half north-east of Dover.
At 11.45 the life-boat...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 12.20 in the morning of the 7th of February. 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that H.M.S. Cygnet, bound from the Arctic to Sheerness, was approaching and wished to land a sick man...
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 3.33 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a local fishing boat, with a crew of two, had capsized one mile south of Sizewell, and at 3.50 the No. 1 life-boat, Abdy Beauclerk,...
Salcombe, Devon.—About 6.55 in the evening of the 18th of May, 1949, the Prawle Point coastguard telephoned that a small vessel 200 yards west of the point was flying her ensign upside down, and the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse was...
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 7th of February, 1959, the coxswain of the Valentia life-boat was informed that the French trawler Mary-Brigitte of Concarneau was sinking three miles south of the...
Longhope, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the night of the 6th of January, 1950, a local doctor telephoned for the life-boat to take a woman who had met with a serious accident to Kirkwall, for hos- pital treatment. As no other boat was available the...
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was flying distress signals south- east of Bass Rock. Five minutes later the life-boat George and Sarah Strachan...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the morning, on the 17th of September, 1950, it was reported that a boat was drifting out to sea from the Helford River. At 8.15 the life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare was launched, in a heavy sea with...
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—On the morning of the 10th of January, 1951, the Gourdon fishing fleet was overtaken by a south-south-easterly gale with a very rough sea. As the harbour en- trance was dangerous the life-boat crew were assembled in...