At daybreak on the 4th April, during a strong gale from the E., with a chopping sea, a large steamer was observed, apparently at anchor, about eight miles N. of To wan Head. She was showing colours, but whether signals of distress or not...
AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...
Category: Committee
THE Earl of Harrowby, who has been the Institution's treasurer since 1899, resigned in November, 1946, and the Duke of Montrose, chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a vicepresident of the Institution has accepted the...
Category: Articles
Ex-Coxswain Robert Smith, of Tynemouth; Mrs. Margaret Armstrong, of Cresswell; Mr. Sholto F. Middleton, Honorary Secretary of the Seaford Branch; Mr. Herbert F. Lancashire, J.P., of Nottingham, a Member of the Committee of...
Category: Obituaries
HOLYHEAD.—On the 22nd March, a steamer was reported to be on the rocks in the vicinity of the South Stack, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden proceeded at 3 A.M. to her assistance, in tow of a ste&mtug.
A very thick fog...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 10.3 on the night of the 4th of September, 1958, the coastguard received a message from the police at Brighton that a two- masted boat was sending distress signals.
Her position was given as a...
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Category: Photographs
BLTTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.—At 3.40 A.M. on the 19th of January, a steamer, which subsequently proved to be the s.s. Jutland, of Newcastle, bound from Chatham to Blyth, in ballast, with a crew of thirteen men, was observed behind Seaton Sea Rocks...
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...
The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 8.15 A.M. on the 28th November as a message had been received from the Coastguard that a barge was in distress some miles north of Cromer. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...